LOVE NEEDS EXPRESSION
Somehow the command to love doesn’t get through to us. We may confess that we lack a strong faith, but seldom do we admit that we are deficient in love. Perhaps we feel we’re as loving as the next person, and maybe a little bit more.
After all, we’re sensitive to the hurts of other people. We don’t enjoy reading newspaper articles about battered wives and abused children. We shift uneasily in front of our television sets when we see little children sobbing with hunger or sitting in silent dispair beyond crying.
But deep inside we know that genuine caring reaches beyond feelings to action. Caring, like steam or electricity, isn’t worth much unless something happens as a result of it. Love without deeds doesn’t really exist, just as talent not demonstrated in creative ways doesn’t exist. Both must be expressed or they are a myth.
If you want to be a loving person, don’t start by taking on the needs of the world. Because we can’t do everything, we often don’t do anything. Start with caring about one person and build from there. You can’t do everything, but you can do something. What can do, you should do. Today, determine that in the power and grace of God you will do it. - Haddon Robinson
Matthew 22:34-40
34. But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Saducees to silence, when they were gathered together.
35. Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
36. Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37. Jesus said unto him, “Thou shalt love the Lord your God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38. This is the first and great commandment.
39. And the second is like unto it, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”
40. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Let us be Christ’s true disciples
Looking to another’s need.
Making stony pathways smoother
By a gentle word or deed. -Thorson
IN A WORLD THAT “COULDN’T CARE LESS,”
WE ARE TO BE PEOPLE WHO COULDN’T CARE MORE.
After all, we’re sensitive to the hurts of other people. We don’t enjoy reading newspaper articles about battered wives and abused children. We shift uneasily in front of our television sets when we see little children sobbing with hunger or sitting in silent dispair beyond crying.
But deep inside we know that genuine caring reaches beyond feelings to action. Caring, like steam or electricity, isn’t worth much unless something happens as a result of it. Love without deeds doesn’t really exist, just as talent not demonstrated in creative ways doesn’t exist. Both must be expressed or they are a myth.
If you want to be a loving person, don’t start by taking on the needs of the world. Because we can’t do everything, we often don’t do anything. Start with caring about one person and build from there. You can’t do everything, but you can do something. What can do, you should do. Today, determine that in the power and grace of God you will do it. - Haddon Robinson
Matthew 22:34-40
34. But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Saducees to silence, when they were gathered together.
35. Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,
36. Master, which is the great commandment in the law?
37. Jesus said unto him, “Thou shalt love the Lord your God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.
38. This is the first and great commandment.
39. And the second is like unto it, “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”
40. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.
Let us be Christ’s true disciples
Looking to another’s need.
Making stony pathways smoother
By a gentle word or deed. -Thorson
IN A WORLD THAT “COULDN’T CARE LESS,”
WE ARE TO BE PEOPLE WHO COULDN’T CARE MORE.