LOVE IS THE ANSWER
The world keeps asking the same questions in louder and more complicated ways. How do we heal what is broken? How do we live with one another when trust is thin and patience is worn? How do we endure suffering without becoming hardened? The answer has never changed. It is not clever. It is not new. It is love.
Not the sentimental version that fades when it is tested, but the kind of love revealed in Christ—strong, deliberate, costly, and faithful. “God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him” (1 John 4:16). Love is not merely something God does; it is who He is. When we draw near to Him, we are drawn into that love, and it begins to reshape us from the inside out.
Jesus did not offer love as a theory. He lived it in full view of a watching world. He touched the untouchable. He spoke gently to the broken and firmly to the proud. He forgave His enemies and bore the weight of sin without bitterness. The cross itself stands as the clearest declaration of what love looks like in a fallen world. “God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us” (Romans 5:8). Love moved first. Love paid the cost. Love stayed.
When love becomes our lens, everything changes. Anger no longer governs us. Fear loses its authority. We stop seeing people as problems to defeat and start seeing them as neighbors to serve. The Apostle Paul writes, “Love is patient and kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself; it is not arrogant” (1 Corinthians 13:4). This kind of love steadies the soul. It slows us down. It teaches us how to live wisely and well.
Love does not mean the absence of truth. In Christ, love and truth are never in competition. Love speaks honestly, but never cruelly. Love corrects without condemning. Love refuses to give up, even when reconciliation takes time. Jesus taught that love would be the defining mark of His followers: “By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another” (John 13:35). In a fractured world, love becomes a visible testimony.
The problems of the age are real, but love is deeper still. It outlasts trends, survives disappointments, and endures suffering. Love is the answer because Christ is the answer—and He has placed His love within us by His Spirit. When we walk in that love, we participate in His quiet, world-changing work.
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Lord Jesus, teach us to love as You have loved us. Shape our hearts, steady our words, and guide our actions, that Your love may be seen in us. Amen.
BDD
