What's love got to do with it?

             Tina Turner made this a phrase that sticks to your mind when she recorded that phrase so many years ago calling it a “second hand emotion.”  I think we all know love is anything but second hand. Jesus taught it was the symbol by which others would know we are his disciples.

³⁴ “I give you a new command: Love one another. Just as I have loved you, you must also love one another. ³⁵ By this all people will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13:34-35 HCSB

Paul writing to the Galatians:

“But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness, self-control.” Galatians 5:22-23 HCSB

He lists love as the first fruit of a believer. It is the evidence of the Holy Spirit within. In our culture it is easy to say we love something. The word gets thrown around in such ways that we disregard the word and look for the act and action. We love food, shoes, friends, colors, comments, organizations you name it we love it. But do we? Love is word but not a word alone. Love is action. Action will reveal what we truly love.

If I speak human or angelic languages but do not have love, I am a sounding gong or a clanging cymbal. ² If I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so that I can move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. ³ And if I donate all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body in order to boast but do not have love, I gain nothing. 1 Corinthians 13:1-3 HCSB

Yet action without love is empty and pointless. We can have the right motive and do the wrong thing and end up doing nothing. Any one in a relationship knows how that works or doesn’t work. We can do the right thing but without the right heart we have done nothing.

What’s love got to do with it? Well…everything. Our actions reveal where our heart is. They reveal what we truly love and cherish. In a conversation on the radio this week the DJ spoke of going to heaven but not wanting to go yet. He felt ashamed of his thoughts but they were true and real. That may be a love question. What do we love? Love has everything to do with everything. Our actions reveal what we love. Do we love ourselves or our savior? It is a daily question whether or not we are dead to self and alive with Christ or are we alive to self and…love has got everything to do with it!        

    

In HIS Service and Yours

Bro G