Monday, February 1, 2010

Love

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
-1 Corinthians 13:1-3

I read this passage this morning and had a thought about it that i wanted to share. As it is read, i have always seen how these verses talked about doing "Godly" things but without His love in our hearts, and how doing this this way is worthless. It says that our motivation must always be love and we learn in scripture that this love only comes from God. Well my thoughts of late have been on marriage, for obvious reasons, and how a marraige is supposed to be a picture of Christ and the church. This verse then i thought is very applicable in my future marriage and current engagement as well, and i have seen the effects. As the verse says, i can do all of the most amazing, above and beyong things for Amanda but if they are not out of a God motivated love, they are a worthless waste of time. I have seen this in the past in that when I am not loving her with Gods love and am trying to just do things on my own she can always tell, and things just dont have the same affect (effect?) no matter how big they are, but when i do things with Gods love for her, even the smallest thing, like making her bed for her while she goes through her end of the day ritual, seem monumental and make her feel loved. So i have realized to an even deeper exent yet again how much my marriage vows to her will really be commiting to Love God and Love through God. Well, that was my brief thoughts from this morning, time to go to class.
Shalom,
TJ

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