Lavished Love

From the Desk of David Boyd National BGMC Director

Have you ever noticed that children love to “lavish love”? A child will run across the room to give a big hug to someone he loves. It’s often all or nothing for that child. He might hang on his mother’s leg around most people, but for the one special individual whom he loves, he will explode with exuberant lavished love.

God is the same way with us. He has lavished His love on us. Ephesians 1:7-8 states, “In Him (Jesus) we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace that He lavished on us…” Imagine the love God lavished on us when “While we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). God lavished His love by sending His Son to the earth to experience pain and suffering and to experience death on the cross—all so that He might forgive us of our sins.

It’s easy to get caught up in life and take for granted the wonderful gift we have been given by God—to have our sins washed away. Let us determine to live a life based on “lavishing” upon others the love of Christ. Today on the news we see the tragedies occurring in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina. Let’s all find ways to lavish God’s love on these hurting people. And let’s continue to lavish love on all the hurting people who surround us every day. Look around you and you will find single moms struggling to keep up with everything life demands. You will find lonely children who are walking a road that will lead to destruction. You will find broken senior citizens who are suffering from years of living a life away from Christ.

Let’s return the favor given to us by Christ. Let’s lavish God’s love on someone else today.