“God is good–he is greater than all the highs and lows…” –Jalen Hurts, Philadelphia Eagles Quarterback, responds to Erin Andrews, Fox News Reporter, immediately after his victory in Super Bowl LIX as the confetti falls

February is sometimes called the month of “Love.” 

What does love mean to you? 

In tennis, “love” represents a score of zero.  This use has existed since the late 1800s, and it is not certain how it came to be. The most likely theory is that those with zero points still played for the “love of the game” despite their losing score. How love became a word for zero is baffling, but so is the overall scoring system for tennis.

What is love to a Christian? In October 2006, a gunman entered a one-room Amish schoolhouse in Nickel Mines, PA. He took the lives of five young girls and injured five others before taking his own life. What followed stunned the world. Members of the Amish community extended forgiveness to the shooter and embraced his grieving family. Baffling to the world how drenched in sorrow, the families chose love over hatred and peace over bitterness. How could they forgive? 

The answer is the transformative power of God’s unfailing love. 

Score: Love-Love

This is God’s scoring system.  

“Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you.” 

Psalm 143:8

Their faith was not a set of doctrines but a lived experience. The Amish knew that God’s love was shining upon them in their grief and demonstrated the power of God’s unfailing love. God’s love is unchanging and constant and empowers us to do the unimaginable. It forgives, heals, and makes us new. 

For the “Love of God” -demonstrate you know Him this month ♥️

Prayer: 

“I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever!” Amen.  Eph. 3:17-20