“To Love Another Person is to See the Face of God” – that’s not scripture but story magical song lyrics and Victor Hugo’s text from intense book “Les Miserables”. To love another person – a beautiful sentiment – and the scripture really is “Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. “
It’s a beautiful thought, seeing the face of God – feeling God – knowing God. LOVE is God’s gift to us and intended to flow from us too, especially back to Him. Love in many forms is earthly and yet love in the agape love of God – from God by God with God – is Hopeful love and a Healing Love. To love like God is to see mercy and forgiveness as gifts for loving more complete and compellingly, completely removing complexity and complications as barriers to love.
The forgiveness portions of “Les Miserables” are in individual relationships and not a corporate-wide or certainly not country-wide swashes of love. The movie is set I’m the French Revolution. The stories of men in their graves is throughout this story reality, from prisoners to protesters. The stories of Hope and affection are personal and important, especially as driving their actions.
Again “Les Miserables” is movie life, and beautiful singing, with a finale of people walking mercifully into Heaven. And I recommend the many online-available renditions, especially singing in the car. Godly loving is shown as God-given… there’s many mercifully shown stepping out of their graves. That’s the REAL gift of God in mercy and grace, by Jesus’s salvation.
“To Love Another Person is to See the Face of God” as a storyline, and matching this potential earthly thought we have: to Love another person is to Feel the Heart of God ache” – because we are all broken people… and yet, without love we would feel nothing. And therefore may we know that to RECOGNIZE Jesus’s grace-covering in God’s Salvation is to SEE with God’s heart. May we reach for that grace place.
So here are the Love scriptures to really take to heart, from 1st John, the disciple whom Jesus loved:
1 John 4:7-14
God’s Love and Ours
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.
* This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world.
Amen
Amen, God is Love
Here’s the beautiful music:
Debbie Upper 