Show I. I f f fIs Is s Love Sad B By REV LEO E. E RUBEL Why are there so many sad love songs I would think that this would be th the happiest subject to sing about IT IS TRUE that there are many songs of love which are tales of woe If love were al always always al- al ways accepted and returned all the songs would be happy The fact is that love is often rejected and the lover must pine away his days in dejection dejection dejection tion and loneliness I wonder wonder wonder won won- der why you keep me waiting Charmaine my Charmaine Or he may have been wronged as has been the one who sings I love you yes I still love you in spite of all that youve you've done For though Ill I'll never forget you broke every vow However that's all forgiven now PERHAPS the saddest of all love songs is in the Bible In fact the whole message of Scripture is Gods God's love song to the human race That would be a good title for the Bible He says I have loved you with an everlasting love therefore therefore therefore there there- fore with loving-kindness loving have I drawn you God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life Herein Here in is love not that we loved God but that He loves us and gave His Son to be the expiation expiation expiation for our sins Nothing can separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord IT WAS THIS love that moved Him to create us redeem redeem redeem re re- deem us from our sins to call callus callus us into His kingdom to preserve preserve preserve pre pre- serve us from all harm and danger and to prepare forus for forus forus us an eternal home in the heavens And what kind of response did He get Isaiah says of this Jesus Gods God's Gift of of love He was despised and ejected j-ejected j of men St. St John says He came unto His own and His own received d Him not Jesus said You have not the love of God in you NO WONDER God is sad at heart as He sings of His unrequited unrequited un un- unrequited un- un requited love |