Every Day Love
“Love always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres” (1 Corinthians 13:7).
Walking through the doors of the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri, you can view artifacts from some of the most consequential years in the 20th Century. In room after room, on shelf after shelf, you can research the end of World War II, recovery efforts after the Great Depression, Lindbergh’s transatlantic flight, the Watergate Scandal, and everything in between.
Somewhere in that library there is a room with a dignified sturdy mahogany writing desk and on the desk a set of fountain pens. Give ‘em hell Harry wore those pens out as he was a voracious letter writer in his lifetime. These letters, however, have little to do with historic events or presidential business. Among these “Truman Papers” you will find a collection of over 1, 330 letters. Truly, they are remarkable. You see, President Truman made it a point to write a letter to his wife, Bess every day they were apart for any reason at all.
Many of the letters are simple updates on minor things. Others, of course, do mention world leaders. And then Harry probably made Bess blush with lines like this: “Every time my thoughts wander, they always come back to you. Every time I see you, your angel carved face makes me want to cry.” But it’s the sheer number of letters that makes the real impact. To see all those letters together is to see evidence of one man’s steady, every day, faithful love for his wife.
God’s love for you is often not in the big and the dramatic. Very often his love for you is in the regular routine of life. Are you recognizing this? Offering thanks for his daily graces? God is the one who sees to it you get something to eat. He’s the one that provides the place for you to pillow your head and the style you chose to wear today. That hug you needed, the compliment that filled your soul like wind in a sail - ultimately Jesus saw to it that it came your way for his love never fails. Or will you have this day with your child or a loved one? What a gift, right!?
Most of all, God is the one who sees to it that his forgiveness of your sin is fresh as the morning dew and new for you every day. Your face was on his heart when he sent Jesus to bear our sin on the cross. And his resurrection was our resurrection - validating the forgiveness he offers us every day. This is the love God has for you. Personal. Passionate. Ever persistent.
Lord, please, move me by your Spirit to see the reality of your love for me every single day.
