Love is the Miracle (2017)

Love is the Miracle

Love is a miracle. Love is the miracle. Because of Love, Jehovah created the universe. Created the earth. Created all life. Created us.

Because of Love, Jehovah did not abandon his purpose when Adam and Eve sinned. He did not destroy Satan and Adam and Eve and start over again, but instead put plans in motion to answer the question of his sovereignty and prove that he is our rightful ruler.

Because of Love, Jehovah again and again forgave his people, who tested him and hurt over the course of thousands of years.

Because of Love, Jehovah held back destruction from repentant ones and upheld his judgments against the lawless ones. Because of Love, he is a God who is ready to forgive. Because of Love, he does not lie, but keeps his word and carries it out.

Because of Love, Jehovah gave his own-begotten son, Jesus, for us. He sent him to earth to teach us, then slew him upon the stake so that Jesus’ righteous blood could free us with ransom from sin and death.

Because of Love, Jehovah is patient, “because he does not desire anyone to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance.” (2 Pet. 3:9)

Because of Love, Jehovah holds out for us “a future and a hope”, a Paradise in which we can live forever in perfect health and in peace (Jer. 29:11). Jehovah will be with us. “Death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things [will] have passed away.” (Rev. 21:3,4) There will not be “any harm or any ruin in all [Jehovah’s] holy mountain, because the earth will certainly be filled with the knowledge of Jehovah as the waters cover the sea.” (Isa. 11:9)

Because of Love, there is you, and me, and all.

Because of Love, Love.

Jehovah, our God, is Love. And in the new system, in the Paradise, “when all things will have been subjected to him, then the Son himself will also subject himself to the One who subjected all things to him, that God may be all things to everyone.” (1 Cor. 15:28) God is Love. He will be all things to everyone. Love will be all things to everyone.

Love is a miracle. Love is the miracle. So let us love the one who loves, and love others, and love all. Love will not fail. It never fails. And wherever love goes, it leaves miracles in its wake. Love is the true power, the power from which all other powers arise. Nothing can exist without Love, for all exists because of Love.

“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels but do not have love, I have become a clanging gong or a clashing cymbal. And if I have the gift of prophecy and understand all the sacred secrets and all knowledge, and if I have all the faith so as to move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my belongings to feed others, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I do not benefit at all.” (1 Cor. 13:1-3)

Without Love, I am nothing. To deny Love is to deny myself, to destroy it is to bring myself to nothing, to reduce myself to dust. Without Love, there is no seeing, no hearing, no speaking, no knowing. Without Love—