The Love Note and its Verification

Who is God? God could have answered the question, 'Who is God?', in many different ways. He had a variety of options. Yet, the option that God settled upon was not a threat, a warning or some other type of ominous communication. God thought that the best answer to the question, 'Who is God?', was a Love Note. The Word of God (John 1:1) is a Love Note - a Love Note from God to us. Wow! Jesus was the tangible expression of God's love for us - its incarnate articulation (1 John 4:8) (Luke 6:45).

Moreover, God went one step further. He did not expect us to believe that the Love Note was genuine without proof (John 20:24-29). So, in addition to sending us the Love Note, God put into our hands a certificate of its authenticity. He verified it.

"Let us test him with insult and torture, that we may find out how gentle he is and make trial of his forbearance" (Wisdom 2: 19).

If God's love for us were counterfeit, it would have faded as we tortured him and would have died when we killed him. But, it did not. Forgiveness verified that his love for us survived the evil that we did to him (Jeremiah 31:31-34) (Luke 23:34 ) (Acts 10:43) (Matthew 6:12) (Matthew 18:21-35) (Luke 7:47). No forgiveness; no verification; uncertainty about God’s love for us. The verification removed all doubt. God's love for us is a mysteriously intransigent, inexplicably persistent and radically stubborn love (Lamentations 3:22-23)(Jeremiah 31:3)(Psalm 8:4-8).

… And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more” (Jeremiah 31:31-34)

Have you read the Love Note? Are you privy to its verification?

What energizes your pursuit of God? I have read the Love Note and am privy to its verification. The Love Note and its verification excite my curiosity about God. I want to get closer to and discover more about the God who loves me.

The Love Note and its Verification

Moreover, God went one step further. He did not expect us to believe that the Love Note was genuine without proof (John 20:24-29). So, in addition to sending us the Love Note, God put into our hands a certificate of its authenticity. He verified it.

"Let us test him with insult and torture, that we may find out how gentle he is and make trial of his forbearance" (Wisdom 2: 19).

… And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord: for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord: for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more” (Jeremiah 31:31-34)

Have you read the Love Note? Are you privy to its verification?