movie about it. There are hundreds of thousands of people who are now
"Facebook addicts." I have several friends and relatives who admit that they
are addicted to this new media of information and interaction. I check the
site almost everyday simply to see what is happening in the lives of our
family and friend, though I rarely write anything.
This week as I was scanning the entries I noticed a post from my niece Becky
from Arizona that said simply, "If you're reading this, I love you." That
message has stayed with me all week, bouncing around in my brain, bringing
me countless applications to life.
Because of my writings I get notes occasionally from people who feel that no
one cares or no one loves them. As I thought about that simple post I
wondered how many people in our world need to hear those words. How many
people were feeling lost and alone and unloved!
As I thought about those words it came to me that God had written them in
the original "face to face book," the Bible from the beginning of time,
that's is the theme of the book, "If you're reading this, I love you! That
is the message of God seen through the life and death of Jesus. That's why
John declares that "God so loved the world that he gave his only son." This
is the message of Romans 5:8 where the Apostle Paul wrote: "But God showed
his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still
sinners." (NLT)
So if you have ever felt unloved and if you are reading this, know you are
loved! I could say that I love you, but you are loved by not just some
mortal man or woman, but by the Creator and Sustainer of the Universe, our
God!
The old hymn proclaims, "Jesus loves me this I know, for the bible tells me
so." Do you believe it?
Russ Lawson
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