If I only had a heart...
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Tin man - has nothing without love.
Tin man - has nothing without love.
The Tin Man is an interesting character - for one, he is supremely concerned about rusting - Which makes me wonder if is not simply Tin plated because Tin doesn’t rust iron does. He’s also interesting because he is without heart or brain. Yet the lack of brain seems to be inconsequential compared to the need for a heart.
Shell of a man. Just going through the motions. No matter the vocation, no matter his capabilities without love there is nothing.
Without Love
Without Love
Revelation chapters 2-3 list letters that Jesus commends John to write to churches in the dispersion. He speaks to challenges they face while sometimes affirms strengths of the congregation. The first letter is to the church in Ephesus.
“To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: ‘The words of him who holds the seven stars in his right hand, who walks among the seven golden lampstands. “ ‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false. I know you are enduring patiently and bearing up for my name’s sake, and you have not grown weary.
-You strive for righteousness by the Law of God. You desire, suffer and endure in the pursuit of living a Godly life.
- You are constantly questioning the actions and doctrine presented by the world and even within the christian world.
-You never quit, you care for one another.
Wonderfull and True statements of the church. To be counted with these strengths of character we all would be proud to call these things us.... & honestly I think we can for the most part.
But I have this against you, that you have abandoned the love you had at first. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent, and do the works you did at first. If not, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place, unless you repent.
Have we forgotten how to love like Jesus? Have we replaced the love of Jesus with “godly living,” “pure doctrine,” “and self preservation?”
Called to Love
Called to Love
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Without love, we lose who we are. If we let go of, set aside for an instant, or even avert our eyes from the love of God in Christ Jesus we lose everything....
Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.
If God’s love is not foregoing and preeminent we’ve lost the farm....
But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together. And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question to test him. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the Law and the Prophets.”
Without love there is no godly living, there is no good doctrine, there is no care.... There is no way to maintain relationship within this fallen world, because without love there is absolutely no way to deal with sin.
Faith is the means of salvation, grace operates in faith, and love inspires grace. Love brings the Gospel as well as the Law. It is the origin of God’s relationship with us.
In the Law and Gospel God gives us the means to live in His Love. He shows us how to love each other and how we are equipped to do so.
Equipped to Love
Equipped to Love
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
Love has provided the solution to sin,
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
In faith, by the Holy Spirit, We can suffer more, endure longer, give more completely because we have Him.
Love is measured in faithful suffering not in desire.
Love isn’t hindered by sin, hurt or heartache. Love doesn’t relent in the face of death and the grave.
-no matter how bad you’re hurt, no matter how much it costs, no matter how much more is coming - Love always wins.
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
The reward- What is there to gain.
The reward- What is there to gain.