Unconditional Love

Yesterday's baptism service at Touch Centre was a very touching moment for me. Pastor Paul Lee delivered the sermon on God's unconditional love, with verses from 1 John 4:7-12.

"Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us."

It brought back memories of how I came to know Christ and faced parental objections when I wanted to be baptised in church about 12 years ago. My baptism was postponed twice as a result of that. I thank God that I made it through after finally obtaining my parents' blessings, even though they did not attend my baptism service then.

Satan will never be able to dislodge us from God's plan and blessing unless we ourselves gave them up. It is the right given to us by God that we need to lay claim to. We are the justified children of God when we exercise our right to the sonship of God.