This is the beginning of my new blog series "Basic Truths". In "Basic Truths", we take some basic things you'd hear a child in Sunday School answer a question with and explore them with Scripture to explain how theologically advanced they are.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I have a nephew named Jaxon. Jaxon is 2 years old and loves going to church. He loves it as much as I do and even woke up this morning when I was getting ready at 6am. After telling him good morning, he stretched his arms up and He said to me "Hi DLowe! I'm ready to go to church." He loves going to church and as his Uncle and as a follower of Christ, I LOVE seeing that. Whenever he sees my necklace or bracelet (they both have a cross) he will point to it saying "JESUS!" I'll ask him "Does Jesus love you?" He'll laugh, say "Yeah!" and smiles! Whenever I can, I tell him "Jesus loves you. Jesus loves you so much!" It's something basic, a "Sunday School" answer if you want to call it that. Even just after the 2nd time, my nephew associated a guy named Jesus with a lowercase "t" and associated love in the midst of it. HE knows Jesus loves him. That brings me to my first basic truth, "God/Jesus(who is God) loves you". If you've ever have attended Sunday School and church a few times, it's something basic you learn, but how basic is it? John 15:12-15 12“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you. 15 No longer do I call you servants for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you. I find it awesome that Jesus says this, knowing what He had to do. He indirectly references in verse 12 "love thy neighbor" and explains we do it because Jesus loves us or he first loved us as 1 John 4:19 says it! The love of God to send his Son onto earth to live a perfect life and to die on the cross is a greater love than we can ever imagine. The love of God is beyond our own comprehension. Scripture elaborates even more onto that, saying God doesn't just love us, but He IS love! He IS love for us. John 4:16 says: "So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him." We have a God and a Savior who made us to love others and to be loved. And we were made to require a love so great that only God can can fulfill it. And he does love us. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thank you for reading, and Grace to You! - Dakota Lowe
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