To Love Another Person Is to See the Face of God

Recently the movie adaptation of the highly acclaimed Broadway musical Les Miserables has come out. If you haven’t seen the play or the movie, I would highly recommend you go do so. The setting is during the French Revolution and the main character is a man who was put in jail for trying to feed his family and his journey to find redemption and salvation. (The dork in me says you should go just for the music)

There is however a very strong message at the end of the story that I had forgotten until I recently saw the movie adaptation. There is a line in one of the final songs that goes:

“To love another person is to see the face of God”

If I had to sum up the gospel into one word it would be love. Too often we forget that loving someone is one of the most important things that we can do as a Christian. The fact remains that each and every one of us (good, bad, skinny, fat, male , female) are all created in the image of God. That is something incredibly special that we should not so easily forget.

So my request to you this week is this: First, go see Les Miserables (it’s money well spent); Second, show love to your neighbor because as the song says “to love another person is to see the face of God!”