Capital "L"

My name is Isaiah Joshua Islas; that isn't too important, but, I figured you should know, since I'm writing to you. You don't know me yet, but I just introduced myself to you. Hi. Nice to meet you.

Fun fact:

Isaiah is from the Hebrew, and it means: Yahweh, or Jehovah, is salvation.
Joshua is from the Hebrew for Yeshuah, and it means literally the same: God is salvation.
Islas is just Spanish for islands; exciting right?

I like my name. I feel special when I think that my parents, and God Himself chose my name and prayed about me before I ever came to be. I think its cool that my name repeats itself. It makes me feel like there needs to be emphasis on the fact that Jesus is the way to the Father. That Jesus saves.

Now that we've gotten that terribly awkward introduction out of the way, I can FINALLY tell you something I, and Jesus, has been waiting to tell you all day:

I Love you.

Notice how I capitalized "Love". I meant to do that.
This week I remembered that God is Love, therefore, His name should be capitalized.
Funny, I always knew God was Love. I knew that.
But I forgot.
Somehow I forgot that.
Somehow we forget that.

I think we are Christians with amnesia. We are Israel, crossing the parted Red Sea of our sins, getting to the other side, and instantly forgetting what we were delivered from. We are saved from ourselves, our fallen nature, our sin, and somehow, somewhere, we convinced ourselves that we're still slaves to sin. To Egypt. Thats a lie. We were saved from that.

Why?
Because God. Is. Love.
His Love saved us.

God is love. We can't be forgetting that.
Love is what saved us from sin.
The Love of God was the original romance.
We were a damsel in distress, He was our hero.
Its the best story ever told, because, we all know, Love is the only thing worth talking about. Really.
I mean, God creates humans out of His own image, out of Love. Out of Love, He makes a promise with the world to not flood it, no matter how jacked we are. Out of Love He delivered us out of the hands of our oppressors. Out of Love He made us wander in the dessert to help us realize our dependence on Him. Out of Love He sent us the law to give us intimacy with Him. Out of Love He sent His son to fulfill the law and to die for us, to have even GREATER intimacy with Him. Out of Love, He gave us the fullness of His son, and gave us the title of Sons and Daughters of God to inherit His kingdom. Out of Love, He is coming back for us.

All out of Love.
How amazing is that-

That is Love.
That is beautiful.
Thinking that the Creator of the universe, thought of me, knew what was going to happen since before time began, knew I would sin, knew I would kill His son, and still chose to create me, because He thought I was worth it.
Well, that makes me blush.

Oh, how I Love Him.
Oh, how I Love you.
I hope you're encouraged.
I look forward to writing to you soon, and often.

I, Christ in me, Love, with the fullness of Gods heart dwelling in me, you, brothers and sisters.
Have a blessed day.

-J