Most people know what “dit dit dit dash dash dash dit dit dit” means. It is Morse Code and is an international code signal of extreme distress, used especially by ships at sea. There are two meanings: One is “Save Our Ship” and the other is “Save Our Souls”.
In this lesson I’d like to make a spiritual application using the SOS as a way to remember what godly love is all about. How the word in the bible for “love” is used. That word is, ἀγαπάω [agapao/agape], and means to love, to be full of good-will and exhibit the same. But if you investigate that word a little more you’ll see that godly love includes “S”ervice, “O”bedience” and “S”acrifice. John wrote, “7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. 8 He who does not love does not know God, for God is love. 9 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. 10 In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” (1 John4:7-10). Nine times in just four verses.
I hope that after listening to this lesson, every time you read the word love in your New Testament, you’ll connect these thoughts and have a greater understanding and appreciation for God’s love. Why? Because God served man by coming down from Heaven and putting on flesh. Jesus the Emmanuel then obeyed His Father in all things and finally, Jesus died, a sacrifice, so that you can be saved, reconciled.