All For Love

Do you feel being unloved? Are you feeling rejected, unworthy, worthless, unwanted, useless or unimportant?

What is your definition of love?

There are a lot of people today who are despised and abused. A lot of people today don’t know their value.

Maybe you feel like you’re not needed, unimportant, cheap and useless. Sad to say you don’t know your value!

What’s the sweetest thing a person had done for you? Whatever it is let me tell you a story. During the reign of Adolf Hitler, concentration camps were being made and the captured Jews in Germany were abused. A German doctor even made soaps and buttons from humans (the Jews of course)! This dark age was called the “Holocaust”. During this dark time, a lot of Jews were being killed. The old people were together being killed since they are considered as useless. In the heart of the city was a very magnificient and eye-catching mansion. In the mansion live an elite man and his only very dear seven year old son. He love his son so much that he granted every desire of the child’s heart.
The rich man together with his son was walking at the sidewalk, enjoying the warmth of the sun. The rich man was a Jew, but he was able to hide his real identity because of his great wealth. In the midst of silence, a breaking incident broke the monotony of the tranquility. A poor fellow Jew was caught stealing a loaf of bread by a lenient German officer. Knowing that the poor guy was a Jew plus he was caught stealing, the German officer fiercely grab the poor guy and was treated harshly. Knowing the common attribute of a German officer, he poor guy knew that he is getting near to his end. The poor guy collapsed not just of physical hunger and pain but because of the greatest fear in his life has come to reality- To die by being made into soaps and buttons.
The rich man freeze for a moment and both fear and mercy was struggling in his heart. The innocent son hid in his daddy’s back crying. Even with his unconsciousness, his feet lead him to the scenario and plead the German officer to let go of the poor guy. The German officer declined but he rich man fall on his knees pleading for mercy. The German officer agreed, but in one tragic condition. In exchange for the poor guy’s life is the life of his very own child.

If you were the rich man, would you give the life of your very own son for the life of the poor guy? Difficult, isn’t it? But if you love your son very much, you will never give your son since you value the life of your son more than your own life.

Think about this lines(from the song All For Love by Hillsong):
All for love a Father gave, for only a love could make a way.
All for love the heavens cried, for love was crucified.

It is because of love that the Father gave and it’s such an amazing demonstration of love that a King would die for you and for me. But God demonstrated His own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us (Romans 5:8, John 3:16).
There is no greater love than this: That a man would give his life for a friend.
There is no higher sacrifice than a would give his life.
God loves you. Do you love Him too?