Editorial July 19, 1975 Issue

Learning to Love as Jesus Loved

Naomi Price

Whoever, whatever, wherever you may be, you can always know that God loves you. Even a glimpse of this fact, and your acceptance of it in some measure, opens the door for you to begin to receive the benefits of His love. It can quickly transform your human experience from desert to watered garden, from feeling trapped to being free, from the misery of hating to the joy of loving, from a sense of being a victim to a consciousness of dominion.

There are no strings attached to God's love and beneficence. He does not favor some people and not others. He does not discriminate or make conditions. He is not temperamental, as human beings sometimes are, loving occasionally and not always. God loves because it is His nature to love. As Christ Jesus said, "He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust."^{Matt. 5:45;} In His sight all are as He made them, perfect in His image. No one, whatever he may humanly seem to be or believe himself to be, is excluded from divine Love's radiance.

The sun has often been used as a symbol to typify the impartial, universal, unprejudiced love of God. Look at the people in the park on a sunny spring day and you may know why. Men, women, and children, senior citizens and junior ones, saints and sinners, people of all colors, occupations, and faiths, can be seen enjoying the sunshine. To be warmed and comforted by the sun, the only condition any one of them had to fulfill was to come out from under cover and put himself where the sun's rays could fall upon him. The sun does not discriminate between people but shines on all.

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