Here's The Only Way To Begin To Love
October 12, 2020
The greatest rivers in the world usually begin on the cold, frozen slopes of high mountains as the sun begins to melt snow and ice, and from the trickle of crystal-clear water a steam begins to flow and eventually a cascade of water plummets down the mountain. In the valley far below, the stream becomes a river, then a great river which we call the Nile, the Amazon, the Ganges, the Rhine, or whatever. By the time these massive bodies of water reach the ocean, they may be kilometers wide, but they are filthy, muddy, and grossly polluted.
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"Why don't you grow up? You aren't a child anymore!" Scores of adults never cut the apron strings, never emotionally grow up. They lean on mother, on their wife or husband, or buy expensive toys which become security blankets. The difference between some men and their boys is merely the price of their toys, so observed one critic.
October 9, 2020
"Your love was fake," the social media post read. "But the pain it caused was very real." It's a sad truth—to love, to be in relationship with another human inevitably involves experiencing pain in one way or another. To simply live in this world involves rubbing shoulders with people that we don't even like, let alone love. But, love—the kind that the Apostle Paul wrote about in the Bible book of 1 Corinthians, is the kind of love which fulfills promises, honors others and keeps peace in relationships. It is more than just a nice idea in the Bible. It is a way of life which allows God to touch other people through our lives. The Greek word for love there, is agape, which occurs when we make the decision to love. This love isn't something that you "fall into" through emotions or attraction. We may need God's help, and lots of it, to live out agape love. God always promises to help us love in this way!
October 8, 2020
When Sir Ernest Shackleton was exploring in the Antarctic, he faced a very difficult hour as their rations became depleted. Finally, the last few biscuits were given out to the men. There was not a crumb of anything left. That night Shackleton lay awake in his sleeping bag with their peril heavy on his mind. He knew that death by starvation was near unless something happened.
October 7, 2020
Marriage, said an unknown pundit, is the art of two incompatible people learning to love compatibly together. Anyone who has been married for more that 24 hours would agree that sustaining a marriage takes more than romantic feelings. It takes a deep commitment of love which reaches beyond your emotions and feelings to meeting the needs of another. It’s costly, too! But its currency isn’t monetary. We pay by repressing the desire to always be right, by giving up the desire to win every round. Yes, love learns to compromise, to yield, but triumphs in the end.
October 6, 2020
When you learn that your bitterest enemy has really “gotten it in the neck,” how do you feel? Do you quietly—or perhaps not so quietly—rejoice? “Good!” you think, “Got just what he deserved! I never liked that person anyway.”
October 5, 2020
When the cartoonist Charles Schulz dined in the home of a friend, the host remarked that he had just what Schulz needed to set off his dinner jacket. He disappeared and then returned in a few minutes with a heavy chain from which a medallion hung. Across the face of the medallion were the letters L O V E. Schulz fingered it for a few minutes and then handed it back to the host. With a wry "Charlie Brown" smile on his face, he said, "It's just a little too much for me. Do you have one that says, L I K E?"
October 2, 2020
One of the greatest orators of all times was Sir Winston Churchill, and who would deny the power of his words during Britain's darkest hours? Yet, says 1 Corinthians 13 from the New Testament, the greatest orator in the world is nothing apart from love. That is why it is so necessary to translate love into the kitchen where you face dirty dishes, and into the laboratory where you rub shoulders with unlovable men and women, and into the classroom where you must learn to love those who disagree with you and actually dislike you.
October 1, 2020
What keeps the world running? Is it the Internet, markets or governments that print money as needed? It's definitely not politicians! No, the reality is that these all threaten to bring the world to its knees. In one word, it is faith! You have faith that another nation will keep its alliances and treaties, faith in your coworkers and faith in your husband or wife that he or she will live up to the promises you made to each other.
September 30, 2020
Overconfidence can be your most deadly enemy! So learned a young man who once stood guard on the walls of ancient Pergamos when an enemy force laid siege to the city. What you don't know is that the wall of the ancient city was almost impregnable. I use the word almost because nothing is absolutely impenetrable.
September 29, 2020
Anyone who has ever looked at the stars on a dark night has, at times, been awe-struck by their vastness and the greatness of space, yet only twelve men in history have been privileged to stand on the moon and look back towards the blue planet, as Earth has been described. Standing on the surface of the moon, the Earth is some 229,000 plus miles away, and, according to Jim Irwin, one of those 12 who saw it from that perspective, the Earth appears to be the size of a walnut.
September 28, 2020
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