What is love? How do we define it? A model definition can be found in the marriage ceremony where the minister asks the bride and groom, ‘Will you love, comfort, honour and protect your (husband/wife) and be faithful to them as long as you both shall live?’… Do you take (each other) ‘to have and to hold, from this day forward; for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do you part’? … In the marriage ceremony love is expressed as a lifelong giving of each other for each other. That’s similar to our relationship to God: when we start out in the Christian life it’s a bit like the marriage ceremony, where ‘God so loved [us] He gave His one and only Son.’ And in giving His Son to us God says to all who will listen:

“Sinner, Do you take this Saviour?”

“I will” (is the response God so desires to hear)

“And Saviour, do you take this sinner?”

“I will,” (says Jesus, with open arms!)

What is love? How do we define it? A model definition can be found in the marriage ceremony where the minister asks the bride and groom, ‘Will you love, comfort, honour and protect your (husband/wife) and be faithful to them as long as you both shall live?’… Do you take (each other) ‘to have and to hold, from this day forward; for better, for worse, for richer, for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do you part’? … In the marriage ceremony love is expressed as a lifelong giving of each other for each other. That’s similar to our relationship to God: when we start out in the Christian life it’s a bit like the marriage ceremony, where ‘God so loved [us] He gave His one and only Son.’ And in giving His Son to us God says to all who will listen:

“Sinner, Do you take this Saviour?”

“I will” (is the response God so desires to hear)

“And Saviour, do you take this sinner?”

“I will,” (says Jesus, with open arms!)