“Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God.” 1 John 4:7

I LOVE the Post Office! And it’s all because the Post Office loves ME! I say that NOW because it’s Christmas Time. And at this time of year, the Post Office sends us special cards and letters, some of which even contain money! This ‘year end’ Good News kind of makes up for the stuff they sent me all through the rest of the year that DIDN’T make me happy!

Call me shallow, but nothing seems to help ‘make up’ after a little tiff… like a gift! Having received bills, reminders of responsibilities, junk mail and pleas for donations all year from the Post Office, I guess they instinctively KNOW they’d better do something NICE, if they want our relationship to continue into next year. So I don’t mind the petty stuff, eSPECIALly when the good stuff is delivered!!

I know, I know. This is crazy thinking! Of COURSE it isn’t the Post Office that sends me stuff disguised and as being from someone else! They are simply MESSENGERS! As I thought about the host of Angels who sang the whole ‘Peace on Earth Goodwill toward men’ theme, I remembered that messengers deliver messages from one source to another. And much of the time, they aren’t even emotionally involved! Not so with me!

As a Child of Most High God, though the Blood of Jesus Christ, His Son, I am REQUIRED to become emotionally involved with my ‘love’ deliveries and actually CARE about the people He sends me to. He wants me to actually LOVE them like HE does. Which can get quite scary AND…end up as a painful process.

There is a story from 1964 in regards to the characterization of pornography by Supreme Court Justice, Potter Stewart, who couldn’t really DEFINE it… but said, “I know it when I see it.” The theme, for this last week of Advent, is LOVE! And while I sometimes find me arguing with myself about the COST of ‘loving others’ in Jesus Name, I HAVE to admit that the message receiver WILL, genuinely and instinctively, ‘know it when they see it!’

I guess It might be helpful to remember my own advice that, often God doesn’t care ‘WHAT’ I do…and much as He cares about ‘HOW’ and ‘WHY’ I do it! A message from ‘The Master!’