Discovering Love

Discovering Love

Implicit in the idea of discovery is something of worth—perhaps great worth. We do not “discover” an old newspaper. Discovery belongs to things that surprise us with value we had not yet seen. For all of us, life holds moments like this. Most of our days are spent managing the ordinary—sometimes even the painful. Yet every now and then, in the middle of the mundane, something glimmers. A diamond appears in the dust of our ordinary lives. Those are the moments we treasure. Much is said about God when the spiritual world is considered, but there are a few truths so profound that discovering them feels like uncovering treasure buried deep within the human story. This is one of those truths.

A young man kneels before the woman he loves and asks her to marry him. As he looks into her eyes, she seems the most beautiful person he has ever seen. That beauty is only partly physical. What he sees is her worth to him. Love always makes this assessment. It sees the other as valuable, precious, and worthy.

Sin, a word often used in the Christian faith, is frequently reduced to the idea of wrong actions. Yet its deeper meaning is relational. Sin is that which dismisses love. It diminishes worth and fractures relationship.

Worthlessness is the lived experience of brokenness.

Love does the opposite. Love restores worth. It speaks in the language of honour, dignity, grace, and belonging. Scripture declares that God is love. The Creator of the universe looks upon us and declares our value beyond measure. In Jesus, God enters the world to reveal
that love fully. When love embraces us, it affirms our worth. From that discovery joy awakens, peace is restored, and hope begins to rise.

Love is the lived experience of worth.