“Though you have not
seen him, you love him…” I Peter 1:8a
Peter loved Jesus. He talked with Him. He ate with Him. He traveled
with Him. He lived life together with Jesus for three years. Jesus did Peter a
great kindness when He healed Peter’s mother-in-law. Jesus did an even greater
kindness when He appeared to him after his resurrection. Though Peter denied
three times that he even knew Him, Jesus received him back as His disciple.
As Peter writes to second generation Christians in I Peter,
who had not seen Jesus before or after his resurrection, He commends them for
loving Him. But is it possible to love someone we have never seen?
At age fifteen, I fell in love with a pretty teenage girl,
but that was more infatuation than love. My puppy love grew and matured into
genuine love after we married. Love grew as we shared the joys and sorrows and
the trials and triumphs that the years have brought us. Genuine love came as we
lived life together.
Though we have not seen Jesus, we can love Him. He promised
to always be with us. He gave us His Spirit. We don’t need to see Him to love
Him. We need only to invite Him into all of our lives and live together with
Him.
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