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REFLECTION

The theme for our reflection is parental love. Parental love is the unconditional affection a parent has for his or her child or children. We are going to reflect on the fact that Jesus’ parental love for Israel is transcendent. In other words, His parental love goes beyond their disobedience.

Dear friend, no matter how a we love our children, when an adult son or daughter becomes difficult to handle, it is most likely we would physically separate ourselves from them or ask them to live elsewhere so that we can have our peace of mind. Unlike human parental love, God’s parental love is transcendent. God demonstrated His parental love through Jesus Christ even when Israel proved unrepentant and difficult through their leaders. Instead of Jesus rejecting them in anger or casting them away, He lamented passionately. ““O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing! See, your house is left to you desolate. For I tell you, you will not see me again, until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.’” (Matthew 23:37-39). In other words, we experience God’s parental love through Jesus Christ when ““…God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him. (John 3:16-17). Dear friend Jesus does not want us to perish in sin when He returns to judge the world. It is for this reason, we are being called upon like chicks that have gone astray from the mother hen to come home under her protective love and care. Like ignorant and disobedience chicks, some of us are completely lost in sin and far away from salvation. Nonetheless, if we listen to the voice of Jesus, our mother hen, who loves and desires to keep us safe, we shall be co-heirs of the Kingdom of God with Him. Beloved in the Lord, do you have a personal relationship with Jesus, and are you willing to submit to His unconditional parental love? Let us repent and believe in Him as our Lord and Saviour, and be saved! Once we are saved, we must remain under His protective and gracious wings until His second and final redemption of the faithful.

It is God’s will to save us, but we have the choice to be saved or not. In the story of the prodigal in Luke 15:11-32, we observed that the prodigal son willingly left the father and when he found out that He cannot survive without the Father’s unconditional love, he returned home. In all what he did, the parental love of the father remained unconditional and constant. This is the nature of God’s love for us through Jesus our Lord and Saviour.

In summary, we have deliberated on the theme, “Parental love.” We have discovered that God’s parental love through Jesus Christ is unconditionally transcendent. In other words, regardless of our transgressions and hardened hearts, Jesus still loves us like a mother hen who yearns to gather her chicks under her protective wings. Shalom

PRAYER

Thank you, Jesus, for your parental love for us. May we appreciate it and remain under Your gracious protection and care until Your second coming. Amen.