A symbol of Love ...

Wednesday, March 27, 2013. The cross is a symbol of love. It is about the love of Christ. It is about God's love to mankind. We want to dig into this love. We want to understand it - and we want to participate in it! We want to feel it, want to taste it.

Where love leads to action …

God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only son! That is written in John 3, verse 16. God loved and loves humans. He loves every single individual living on this planet. God's love itself is remarkable. It is extremely important for us to see and understand God's deep love.

Love is a feeling to most of us. But love is also more than a feeling. Love is a relationship. Love is something which is influencing our whole life. Love is penetrating everything we think, everything we feel, all what we do. Love leads to action!

God's love lead him to action. The story of Jesus is much more than an accident. It had been prepared over centuries, over more than 1000 years. God knew, something deep and important had to happen. He is completely pure, completely clear and full of light. But we are not like him. We cannot be in his presence, we would be destroyed by his purity and by his justice.

Love and dedication …

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God's love lead him to action. He planned to resolve our deepest problem. He made plans to bring his purity down to earth. He made plans to reconcile mankind with himself. In Jesus, these plans became reality. God's son was born as the child of Mary.

Jesus then lived God's purity on earth. He brought it into our immediate environment. He lived, fully human. He lived, fully God. God lived among us. And he died at the cross - an innocent death. A death which God accepts as a death for all impurity, for all guilt, for all which separates us from him.

God's love lead to a plan, and it lead to action. In Jesus, he offers us full reconciliation. This is summarized in the famous words of the Gospel of John: For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.“ (John 3, 16). Let us come to him, see and believe! (Roland Potthast) ... more texts