Knowing God Through Love

Knowing God Through Love

This is the final part of our series with movies. I pray that you all, as readers, have seen some awesome truths about our God through it. Today our movie is Gnomeo and Juliet. As you might know and can assume from the title, it is a love story, which I feel is the biggest lesson to learn about from our Lord. Love.

The passage is one of my personal favorites and that is 1 John 4. Here is an excerpt from the whole chapter:

⁷ Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. ⁸ He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. ⁹ In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. ¹⁰ In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins. ¹¹ Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

God is love. If we can understand this, love becomes an even more powerful gift we can give others. Gnomeo and Juliet are from opposing families, the Reds and the Blues, and when they first meet each other they must realize the love they have on their side.

Gnomeo was going to be going against everything that their world said, a Blue gnome with a Red gnome. He knew the love that he had for Juliet was that powerful that it would be worth it. 

Now this love was fictional, imagine a love that is infinitely larger. A love that someone would die for. A love that someone DID die for. This is the love that God is. This is the love that we must know and understand if we are to truly experience Christ and His message. 

One of the best parts of the movie is the soundtrack. It is happy, joyful, and makes your foot start tapping. It creates a certain mood for the film. It allows viewers to see the film in this romantic and inviting sense. What helps create the mood for the love that Christ offers and is? What ways as Christians are we making the love that we say we have received seem inviting?

Happiness and Joy. I know I have said it before, but how do we most effectively start conversations about our faith. Difference, when people start asking questions about why you are different or happy all the time, we get the chance to point them to Christ. This is not always an easy transition, but with discipline it can come. It's a personal struggle of mine to avoid the spotlight, but God gets the glory, and if the spotlight allows you to love on more people, then maybe God put you there for a reason. 


So embrace this happiness and joy, go out, break the odds and believe in the love that we have received. If you remember anything from this please let it be this, God is love.


Thanks for reading.