Day Twenty: Love is so precious ... (Jeremiah 5:30-31)

Jeremiah 5:30-31 "An appalling and horrible thing has happened in the land: the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule at their direction; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?"

Love is the truth from which God created and toward which creation is restored. I am sure somebody has said this before (I am not sure who) but that was the thought in my mind as I woke up this morning.

This truth is so fundamental that its enemies must guard it from us very carefully. Scripture tells us the tactic of the enemies of Love "who come to you in sheep's clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves." They speak "destructive heresies" and "ways of sensuality" and many of us will follow them and be lost.

Somewhat stupidly I typed "Love is" into Google Image search just now - I quickly cleared the screen. IF there was an image that could represent Love it was hidden amongst fluff, erotica, porneia and imo/hipster counter-culture. What "Love is" is hidden by the clutter - the way of Love (God) is blasphemed - He is hidden in the clutter of the causal use of the word love. Winston Churchill said "In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies." Our notion of Love is so distorted and distracted that we hardly recognize it when it is staring us in the face. God establishes His victory in Love. Thus it is Love which the enemy of Love must attempt to undermine in its futile attempts at victory over Love.

We live in a time of war. Most who read this blog live in the battlefield of a modern western post-Christian society. We live in a society in which ideology is the standard against which Theology is examined. These ideologies cannot leave Love unattended.

Here is our hope found in Christ alone: Love may be surrounded with dark lies but God's Love will never be overcome by darkness - Love will always shine and the darkness will not overcome it. Love is always available to any person who seeks the Christ of Christmas.

John 1:10-13 "He was in the world, and the world came into being through him; yet the world did not know him. He came to what was his own, and his own people did not accept him. But to all who received him, who believed in his name, he gave power to become children of God, who were born, not of blood or of the will of the flesh or of the will of man, but of God."