MAD

The song asks, "What's love got to do with it?"

The Cheerleader and I have three adult sons.  When they were young boys they so wanted to please us (I hope it's still the same now...guys?).  If they knew we were displeased with them, or even if we didn't have a smile on our faces, many times they would ask, "are you happy Daddy?"  Now, there were times where we were displeased....but not with them, but their actions.  There was..is nothing they can do that will separate the love that their mother and I have for them.  

Do you know it's the same with God.  The Apostle Paul wrote in the book of Romans, "...indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God..." (v. 39)  "Tim, but you don't know what I have done?"  I don't, but God does and Romans 5 tells us that even when we were at our worst...when we were unlovely that "..God showed His love for us by sending (His son) Christ to die for us..."

God is not mad at you....He is MADLY IN LOVE WITH YOU!  "For God loved the world so much that he gave his one and only Son, so that everyone who believes in him will not perish but have eternal life." (John 3:16) Does that sound like someone who is mad at you?  He GAVE His GREATEST possession TO you and FOR you....because He LOVES YOU!

Maybe, today, you don't have a good or positive picture of what a loving father looks like.  Maybe, today, you DO have a loving father that has been there for you.  My encouragement to you, this day that is used to express to the one(s) we love our devotion, look to the GIVER OF LIFE who has extended himself, IN LOVE to you.

I truly believe, to have your BEST YEAR YET, all that we do should come from an expression of LOVE for ourselves and for others.