A few weeks ago a girl had brought a Gameboy in, but there had been no bag, and that morning I had gotten something really cool from a banana that I had to share. So I kept the Gameboy in the back of my mind in case it showed up again. This week I was handed a piece of paper that had "I (heart) you" on it, I saw an opportunity to talk about the Gameboy.
In a video game the character has to do what you tell it to do. It can't just do whatever it wants or go where it wants. It has be programmed to do certain things only when certain buttons are pushed. One button has been programed to make it jump, one to make it run, one to make it fight etc. It has no freedom, no ability to choose, it has no choice except to do as it's told.
Humans aren't like that. God didn't program us to be obedient to a fault. He didn't make us with an inability to choose. And He didn't because if He had, then we wouldn't really be able to tell Him, "I love you."
If you can't choose any other option, it really can't be genuine. If there is no way to pick something else then it can't be real. If my wife had been the only woman on earth and I picked her that really doesn't mean much because I had no other choice. But the fact that I picked her out of 6.5 billion other people means a lot.
God wanted us to be able to choose to love Him. He wants our love for Him to be real and genuine. For that to happen we had to be able to pick something else. So God gave us the power of free will. We can chose to love Him, or to reject Him. Every day He says to us, "I love you." He's given us the Bible, sixty-six love letters from His heart to ours. He gave us His Son, Jesus, who came to show us how God would live life and to give us eternal life now. God sent Jesus to open the path to His thrown to us, He showed us His love by sacrificing His only begotten son. That is love.
God tells us every day, "I love you." Will you say it back?
Peace be with you
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