Love is The Answer

"He who does not love does not know God, for God is love." (1 John 4:8)

What is the meaning of Life?

Why are we here? What is our purpose? What will make the world a better place?

Most people will probably say "Love." Yes. Love is the answer.

On that we can all agree.

So if love is the answer, and most people will tell you they are loving and they try to love others, why is the world in such a mess? Why is there so much division, hate, war, violence, and strife among people?

Because most do not truly know love.

God is love.

And if God is love, then knowing and loving God is the answer to the world's problems.

But many people today either refuse to believe in God, or they really don't want anything to do with Him personally, even if they say they believe there is a God. 

Many say, "god is simply an 'energy' in the universe, so we can't know God personally."

But that is untrue.

God said:

"Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart." (Jeremiah 29:12-13)

If you really want to know God, all you need to do is pray to Him and He will listen. And if you seek Him with all of your heart, He promises you will find Him.

The almighty, invisible Spirit; the immortal God, made a way for you to know Him personally, as Father. And He did this by sending His own Son, Jesus, to come to earth, and become "flesh." To become a man—the perfect Man; who came to restore relationship with God and mankind.

What caused the separation between God and man in the first place?

We did.

By breaking God's law, by sinning in the very beginning. The first man and woman (Adam and Eve) disobeyed God and ate that which was forbidden. (Read Genesis chapters 2-3).

Man caused the separation; a bottomless chasm, a breach, that man on his own cannot ever repair. 

So God Himself made a way by sending His Son Jesus to repair the breach. He is the bridge between God and man - the only bridge.

This is why Jesus said:

“I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me." (John 14:6)

All men are sinners in God's eyes. We have all broken God's laws (see the Ten Commandments, Exodus 20:1-17, and Romans 3:23).

You may say you're a "good person." But God Judges man according to His standards of perfection, not according to ours.

This is why we all need Jesus as our Savior. He is the bridge between God and man. And there is no other way to reach God. We cannot climb our way up to Him by doing good.

That is why He came down to us as Jesus Christ—God the Son.

God is Love.

And Love is the answer.

Pray to Him and seek Him with all of your heart and you will find Him.

—God is Love, and Love Never Fails.