Love
Did the title of this post make you roll your eyes a little bit? Our sermon at church this morning was about love, and particularly God’s love. We have all heard that passage in 1 Corinthians about love over and over again at weddings and we sort of say “yeah yeah, heard that one a thousand times.” I believe some of the best words out there have been watered down and made to seem rusty and useless….probably an effort of Satan himself. Words like love…..and grace….and salvation… and doctrine….. don’t these words bring to mind something less than passionate often?
Anyhow with love, how can you boil it down to brass tacks. The bible says some poignant things about that. Jesus said something to the effect of “greater love has nobody than this: that he give up his life for his friends.”
And in that famous 1 Corinthians passage, we get some of what love is…. patience, kindness, lack of boasting, lack of envy, politeness, lack of arrogance or self centeredness, always protecting hoping and persevering. Then it goes on to say something they dont usually quote in the weddings, something to the effect that “you can be the greatest at whatever you do, even the greatest missionary or pastor or whatever, and if you have not love, you are nothing…..you are like a noisy gong or symbol.” That verse rang loud and clear to me. I can be the hardest working mission pilot in the world. But if I don’t pour myself out for that inter-personal love for Heather and Elise (and any future kids we may be blessed with), and for those people God places in my path, if I lack that interpersonal love, I am nothing.
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