Jude
CALLED IN LOVE

If God had a nick-name for you, what do you think it might be? Couples often have pet names for each other: Darling, Dear, Love, Babe, Honey-Bun, Sugar… and I’m sure you could add a few more. The thing is, we don’t know what name God wants to call us. Later on, all will be revealed when Jesus gives his overcomers “a white stone, with a new name written on the stone that no one knows except the one who receives it.” (Revelation 2 v 17 ESV). In the meantime, despite not having (or knowing) our new name, we can be sure that we are loved by God.

Jude wrote to believers just like you and me. There is no address or date on his letter, so it could well have been written personally to us. This is how he addresses us: “To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ.” (Jude 1 ESV). We are beloved to God. We are kept in him because he loves us. We are called by him because he sees potential in us.  The new name, showing the really close relationship between us and God, is coming. 

In the meantime, we know that we are loved, called and kept. If we can go through life knowing this with all our heart, we will live holy and beautiful lives for him.

May our love grow toward God and each other like His love does toward us.

With love in our Lord,
Robert