Thoughts on Love

God places such an absolute premium on Love that our overlooking of it must be regarded as fatal to the very life we have set our hopes on attaining to. We would much prefer to believe that our knowledge and zeal for deeper truths of the faith purify our souls and make us unfathomably spiritual - however, time and time again if we would only listen, the scriptures as well as life experience would have us corrected. The whole of the world's church both near and abroad has been divided against itself - becoming weak and powerless against sin and the world system. We have stacks of books to show what we know - and yet what has it every profited without love? We love to expose one another and reveal to all what penetrating spiritual insights we have into the human psyche - and for all our "spirituality" we have slandered our weak brother, stripped him and publicly exibited his nakedness (and had we eyes to see, our own as well). One slight difference in docterine causes within us enough suspicion assume every scandelous thing. But then it appears - this new command of Christ that we LOVE one another - not as the sinners do, who can naturally love in pleasant conditions. No, Christ demands the impossible. He taxes our human will and charity to the uttermost limit and we find we have not the means to pay up to such a requirement. Yet if we can not love our brothers who are born again by the same Spirit into the same Life, what hope is there for this world? He has made a provision in His own broken bleeding body that puchased for us a common newness of Life - that by Faith we may draw upon His inexhaustible resource of love, humility, patience, forebearance...holiness! - so as to never come up short. However, so long as we see only flesh and not Christ in eachother(Paul says, "I see no man") and likewise look to our own flesh to foot the bill - we will utterly fail. May we cry our for mercy on our hateful, slanderous souls that we may be one as They are one! And may we be intimately acquainted with that Love that covers rather than exposes a multitude of sins - to outdo one another in showing honor.

Col. 3:12-17