This month we have been spending much time talking about God’s love available to us through faith in Christ and a personal relationship with Him. We are told to receive the gift of His love and continue in His love and abide in His love to fully enjoy the benefit of His love for us in our lives personally. We are instructed in Scripture to show His love and share His love to those around us. We are to be a recipient of His love in our lives and then a conduit of His love flowing through us to those beyond us. We are given the example of Jesus and the Good Samaritan in Scripture, as well as others, to help us see what His love looks like in action. We see the grammatic use of this word love used as a verb of action and as a noun of a state of being, as well as a description of both. So, we see that it is something we are to experience and we are to be and we are to express. We are told to love our neighbor, which is explained to be anyone other than ourselves, as well as to love our enemies. We are told to love others as ourselves and love others as Christ has loved us. We are told to love the unlovely and to love those who may seem undeserving of it in our eyes, just as we have been loved by God in Christ as violators of His law and offenders of His holiness. We are told to love others by serving them, giving ourselves to them, and laying down ourselves for them. God has covered this matter of the topic of love in so many ways and in so many places in His Word that none of can read or hear it much at all and claim to be ignorant of its relevance and reality in our living of daily life and our accountability before our Creator. Even the studies of man have concluded that one of the most basic needs of us in our human experience is to love and to be loved. We are wired for this in our core being by our Creator who created us in His image, which is the fact that God is love. That is who He is so that is what He shows and that influences everything He does. If we are His children who have been created in His image and redeemed unto His glory, then that is the image we are to be presenting to this lost and dying world. We are saved unto genuine love of those in the family of God as our brothers and sisters in Christ, as well as to love the lost by telling them about our wonderful Heavenly Father who wants them to experience, enjoy, and also express His love in their lives as well.