With finals rapidly approaching and senior students soon graduating in May, the last chapel service of the year was held in Collins auditorium on Tuesday morning.
Cyrus Eaton shared a message with students at The Gathering about learning how to receive God’s love.
Eaton said love within the community is the best way to learn how to receive and give love. Being part of a house with roommates, Eaton shared his experience on how they took care of each other.
He consulted the book of John that described how Peter questioned Jesus when he washed his feet. Like Peter, Eaton said man tends to reject the chance others have to be kind to one another. Not because man is mean, but because he might not ask for anything in return if he does something for others. God wants man to know how to receive love from others in order to grow.
“Our capacity to love is not determined by our position in regards to others,” Eaton said. “Our ability to love others will always be tied to our willingness to receive His love. We cannot give what we have not learned to receive.”
Eaton noted how oftentimes man can feel comfortable helping others, but it’s hard to let others help you. If man receives generosity, he will eventually learn how to give them to others.
Those who look at you should almost desire and envy the life of sacrificial living that you have,” Eaton said.
He noted that others like you encourage the community to live how Jesus taught. He provided an example through a Mother Teresa saying: “Little things done with love can change the world . . . .”
Eaton encouraged students to read John and reflect on how to live life together.
“There isn’t anything that Jesus wouldn’t do,” Eaton said. “We would be moved to love just like he was.”