Let's Talk About Love

LAMPLIGHT DEVOTIONAL GUIDE
“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path”
Psalm 119:105 (NIV).
“Living From the Eternal Perspective”
A Devotional From
PATHH Ministries

DATE:
Thursday, January 27, 2011
HEADING

Let’s Talk About Love
By Teddy A Jones
TEXT (Col. 3: 13 - 15)

13 Be even-tempered, content with second place, quick to forgive an offense. Forgive as quickly and completely as the Master forgave you. And regardless of what else you put on, wear love. It's your basic, all-purpose garment. Never be without it. Let the peace of Christ keep you in tune with each other, in step with each other. None of this going off and doing your own thing. [MSG]

13Put up with each other, and forgive anyone who does you wrong, just as Christ has forgiven you. 14Love is more important than anything else. It is what ties everything completely together... [CEV]

COMMENTARY
Christ, the master fashion designer has provided for the disciple a fantastic fashion line. All laid out in a Mall called Grace for us to choose to take up and wear. Items like humility, gentleness, forgiveness and patience stand out in vivid detail. In his grand scheme of things He also included an all purpose garment. A garment that brings off the others, a garment that almost forces you to wear the others to match with it. The all purpose garment of love, it ties everything together.

My favourite aunt is a seamstress and she once told me that some garments contain a long threading, which is like the main thread. Pull that thread out and the entire garments collapses. Love is like that. All the garments here mentioned which make for soul peace and peaceful human relations are pointless if there are not built in love and around love. So let’s talk about love.

Throw out all fanciful notions of nice words and feel good sentimental gush that Hollywood and the entertainers have plastered unto your mind and get real. Agape draws its meaning directly from the revelation of God in Christ. It is not a form of natural affection, however, intense, but a supernatural fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5:22). It is a matter of will rather than feeling (for Christians must love even those they dislike -- Matt. 5:44-48). It is the basic element in Christ-likeness. So Thomas a Kempis says ‘whoever love much does much.’ Stop throwing your ‘I love you’s to the wind... sow it to the need.

Something to Meditate on:
Does my alleged love stand the harsh test of Christ’s as the measuring stick?

A decision I need to make
I will make my I love you’s real

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