What is love? Love to me is commitment. Love is denying myself and putting others first. Love is when you’ve done me wrong, I forgive you and let it go. Love is when I give you something that causes you to be comfortable, but in the giving it makes me uncomfortable. Love is going beyond my own strength to help you out. Love is standing up against an enemy for your sake.

You might say, “Right, no one here can meet all of that.” You are absolutely right. But, I can tell you about someone who can meet it all. Jesus Christ has already met it all for our sakes. He is committed for he said in Matthew 28:20, “Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world.” He denied himself and put us first. II Corinthians 8:9 says, “For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.”

They crucified Jesus but he still forgave. Luke 23:34 tells us that while on the cross Jesus said, “Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.” Jesus left the comfort of his home in heaven to come down here and have no where to lay his head. Scripture tells us in Matthew 8:20 that Jesus said, “the foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the son of man hath not where to lay his head.” Love is going beyond your strength to help another. Jesus met this. In the Garden of Gethsemane Jesus prayed to the Father before the hour of his crucifixion. Luke 22:44, “And being in agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.” We said that love is standing up against an enemy for someone else. Jesus did that at Calvary, when he allowed them to take his life. I say allowed because no man took his life he laid it down for our sakes and defeated the enemy of our souls.

At Calvary Jesus met the enemy of our souls and paid a price we could never pay. All that is asked of us is we confess our sins, repent and ask for forgiveness. I John 1:9 says, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.”
We ask Jesus to come into our hearts and be Lord of our life. We then have to let go of the reigns and let Jesus, by the power of the Holy Spirit, lead us in the way the Father would have us to go. We have to learn then to “trust in the Lord with all our hearts and lean not unto our own understanding.” We must learn to “acknowledge him in all our ways and then he will direct our paths.” Proverbs 3:5 & 6

The end is just the beginning.