About "No Greater Love" and the Fallen Heart Symbol
People buy fine jewelry (jewelry created using precious metals and gems) based upon emotions, celebrating a life event. Examples of these “life events” are engagement, wedding and graduation (rings), and anniversaries, birth of a child, and holidays such as Mother’s Day and Christmas (pendants and bracelets).
People are searching for keepsakes that signify purpose and meaning. Every jewelry store always sells many precious metal crosses, the ultimate and final symbol of the Christian faith. The “No Greater Love” pendant is simply another Christian symbol, such as pendants with a mustard seed or the WWJD bracelets that were popular a decade ago.
“No Greater Love” is a new way to show the Christian faith, based upon the foundation of Christ’s love:
“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.” (John 10:11), and,
“The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life — only to take it up again. No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father." (John 10:17-18), and here’s the main point:
“Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15:13)
If you picture a clock over the “laid down” heart, the heart faces 3:00 p.m., the time of day when Jesus died on the cross.
Note that the bottom of the heart is “cut off,” symbolizing the verse, “For he was cut off from the land of the living; for the transgression of my people he was punished.” (Isaiah 53:8)
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