The Greatest Love Story

I love hearing people’s love stories and I love telling our love story. I am a hopeless romantic. A hopeless romantic is a person who continues to believe in love, no matter the struggles they might have experienced in the past. They choose to see the positive in relationships over the negative, believing wholeheartedly that love conquers all.

So, because of my “Hallmark-loving, happy ending stories”, I am one that asks others about how they met, fell in love, and got married. I love a good on-screen love-story movie, but there is nothing like real life ones.

Perhaps it is mostly women who love to tell their love stories – with full details. Men, on the other hand, might not relish so much the ooey-gooey tales of romance. Still, I urge you to ask others about their love stories.

I do that often here in my community while sitting with others at our social events. I love to ask couples and even widows and widowers about their stories. Usually, it is the wife who jumps at the opportunity to share “their story”. Her eyes start to twinkle and even the husband jumps in and helps fill in the gaps or adds his part to their story.

But I assure you, there is no LOVE STORY that can compare to the greatest story ever told. This one surpasses all others. It is the story – my own story and maybe yours – of falling in love with Jesus. This love story gives us hope for today and tomorrow. We are never forsaken.

This story is about God’s Son who left the portals of heaven to become one of us, first, as a little baby. Then He grew up and set the pattern for loving, living, and serving others. And, then He died for us so that our Love Story can live on forever.

The Bible tells us to “give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, for His steadfast love endures forever” Psalm 136:1. “Steadfast love” describes a love that is unconditional and unchanging.

During this Advent season, we’ll be hearing that Love Story repeatedly. How should we respond to it? We can respond like the shepherds did on that first Christmas night, and like the Wise Men when they arrived at their home. They worshiped Him.

We can rekindle this romance as we lean in closer to Him and bow our lives to Him in adoration for Who He is and all He has done for us.

We can fall in love with Him again and determine to keep the “flames” of that first love we had for Him burning as brightly as the star that announced His coming over 2,000 years ago. Indeed, it is the “Greatest Love Story Ever Told”! Why wouldn’t we share it?