Faces: Stories They Tell And How Love Matters

Love whispers, Look deeply and intently at faces. Gaze into their eyes. They’re faces with a story and the people God loves.

There’s more to a face than meets the eye. Aesthetics present features in color and shape, and how they lay between the forehead and chin.

Yet, much more is seen. So consider the variant qualities of faces: beckoning, engaging, enchanting, yearning, magnetic, and stolid.

Faces are Storytellers

Narratives of gladness, sadness, loneliness, heroism, defeat, victory, or captivity dwell behind a face. And other chapters waiting to be written. Every human longs to share one story of magnitude. A story of real love.

God calls us to love the people in our home and family, in our neighborhood, in the workplace, in a local church, and so on. And loving in a broader sense in our community and world.

But how do we love others well? Can we love all people? And is it possible to simultaneously love people under our roof, those in our backyard, and people on the other side of an issue, a hurt, our town, and the world?

Perhaps the answer is found in an attempt to grasp how God sees and loves people.

See the Way God Sees

God sees every person as someone who needs a story of love. Because God loves each of us with a steadfast love like no one else.

His love story was already written on Calvary’s cross and an empty tomb. It becomes our personal love story if we let God write it on our hearts when we accept His salvation.

But other stories of love are waiting for us to pen in people’s lives.