Titus 3:1-7 Put them in mind to be subject to principalities and powers, to obey magistrates, to be ready to every good work, (2) To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, but gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men. (3) For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. (4) But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, (5) Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; (6) Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; (7) That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
The last two weeks we have looked at worshipping God and how it is to be done. God is the only one worthy of worship because who He is: God is the Creator of all things. This week we are going to try and look at the love of God. This is a difficult task because who do I even try to explain God’s love? God’s love is immense and immeasurable. And we are so very unworthy of His love, yet He willingly and abundantly gives it to His children. There is absolutely nothing that we have done to merit His love and truly, before salvation, we did not really desire His love. We may have said with our lips, “I love God”, but our bodies and our thoughts showed otherwise. Even now after salvation we push Him aside so we can follow our own wants and desires. We partition God into a segment of our life, sort of like keep Him in a closet and pull Him out when we feel like it or need Him. If I took my children or my wife and put them in a closet and for about ten or fifteen minutes of the day I take them out and talk to them and then decide that I have met my obligation so I return them back to the closet, does that make sense? Of course not, but why do we do it with God? We are to interact with Him all day and night long! You walk into a fancy cathedral church: it has the stained glass windows, gold trim, candles, paintings, intricate woodwork and it seems like a fantasy, because when you walk back outside reality hits you square on in the face. Our worship of God should be based on reality not fantasy, because He is REAL! Is He real to you? He should be. He LOVES you and we should return that love back to Him. He gave us our next breath, we should return that breath to Him in worship because of His Love for us.