If we can summarize the Bible in one word, what will it be? ...LOVE.  Everything in it is about love.  The ten commandments was carved on the tablets but Jesus Christ carved the one law in our hearts... LOVE.

     The cross represents love... a vertical line which is the love between man and God. The horizontal line is man's love for one another.  You cannot love God without loving your neighbor.  It is a cross because for most part love entails sacrifice.  For God so love the world that he gave his only Son.  There is no greater love than to die that others may live, and live forever.

     Trust is what makes love works.  If Adam and Eve trust God when He said that they will die on the day that they eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge, we would not be in this BIG MESS.  There will be no death and sufferings.  The world would have been perfect.

     But what's done is done.  The good news is that we were given the way to go back to how it was supposed to be.  Christ saved us and showed us that by trusting God, we can be redeemed.  By sacrificing His life He gained eternal life.

     Here is something to think about.  We are always trying to have a better future.  Good education almost always guarantee a better life.  We invest in retirement savings plan, educational funds for the kids, life insurance, pension plans and all sorts of plans.  We worry too much about things in this short life because death makes us worry.  Have we stop and try to think what this life is compared to eternal life.  Life without end.  We could be in eternal mess or it could be an eternal bliss.  If we are smart enough to think of the immediate future, are we smart enough to think of how to invest on having the better end of everlasting life?

     I learned it the hard way...with God's big smack at the back of my head, it made me realize that I got all the time, if I will just slow down.  Spend more time knowing Him.  I was in a big mess 15 years ago.  My girlfriend, Chona left for the States and my parents and sisters moved to Canada.  Everything went downhill from there.  There was a big void in me and I do not know how I can fill it.  I thought I could entertain myself by watching all the movies, buying everything I want, having a new girlfriend... none worked and I got lonelier and lonelier each day.  I was too blind to see all my blessings.  All that I know is that I am a lonely.  I am empty.  I'm a failure.  Until I decided, I have no reason to live... I'd rather die.  I planned it around this time of the year in 1985 and I was going to MAKE SURE that I am dead before my birthday.  It will be so sad to die on Valentine's Day.

     But God's Love is so great. In my little room with an old little newsprint book called "Steps To Christ" I don't know what it is but I felt like God is talking to me.  And what He is asking is very simple... accept Christ as your personal saviour.  I don't know what's gotten into me but I said, "Lord, I give up.  There is nothing I can do nor I can have that will make me happy.  I am as good as dead.  I welcome YOU as my personal saviour .... AND I FELT THE JOY THAT I HAVE NEVER FELT BEFORE!!!  I don't know how to describe it but my emptiness was filled with so much LOVE.  It was so great that right then and there all my desires to end my life ends.  I never thought I can find God in such a humble way.  I ended up dying though... but it was my OLD SELF that died.  My NEW SELF was born.  I was born again.  And the best part is it felt like this new self will never die again.  With God in my heart, I found my purpose.  That was the start of my life that is simple yet fulfilling where I found God talking to me in the bible, in songs, poems, movies, colors and even nature.  I was blessed with eyes that can see and ears that can hear.  There is no place where God is not there.  The world became my church.  But the good part is I AM ALWAYS HAPPY.  It feels like there is no problem without solutions.  Even the problems became solutions themselves.  There is so much to tell and I can write a whole book on it but I won't even go there.

     Because I love God, I trust him.  It is this faith that made me grow spiritually.  The more I love, the more love I get back.  LOVE became my way of life... at work, with my family, even with my enemies (who eventually always end up as my friends).  It doesn't have to be great... in our SMALL ways we can SPREAD LOVE.

     We can only honestly say that we have God... if we have love, for God is Love.