Love #3
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins.
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a fatted calf with hatred.
...love is as strong as death, jealousy as cruel as the grave; its flames are flames of fire, a most vehement flame. 7 Many waters cannot quench love, nor can the floods drown it…
Proverbs 10:12, 15:17, Song of Solomon 8:6-7
Father, there is no question in our minds about the effect of hatred. We see it everywhere and it seems so irrational, so distressing and so destructive. To choose hatred is to choose misery, not only for ourselves but for others. How could we have drifted so far from Your will?
Here, Solomon teaches us that love covers all sins. Is that true Father, that the reality of love actually covers all sins? You have taught us that is true and you told us Jesus that there are two over-arching commandments and if we satisfy those commandments we fulfill the entire law. We must love You with all of our heart mind and soul and our neighbors as ourselves. When we do so, love is the key to forgiveness and eternal life. Is hatred ever O.K.? We know you hate sin but You are the Judge, not us. Help us to work toward the redemption of every soul, even our enemies.
We also see that a life style of abundance, if lived in a hate filled circumstance, is much worse than a simple meal, even in an atmosphere of poverty. If love is absent, so are You.
You teach us that true love will make the ultimate sacrifice but when we are jealous, it results in cruelty greater than the grave. Jealousy truly fans a flame than can destroy relationships. But again You tell us that even a flood can not drown out the flame of love. Return us to the spirit of our first love with you and all of those we have ever loved. In Jesus' Holy name, we pray, amen.
Bruce Caldwell
Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a fatted calf with hatred.
...love is as strong as death, jealousy as cruel as the grave; its flames are flames of fire, a most vehement flame. 7 Many waters cannot quench love, nor can the floods drown it…
Proverbs 10:12, 15:17, Song of Solomon 8:6-7
Father, there is no question in our minds about the effect of hatred. We see it everywhere and it seems so irrational, so distressing and so destructive. To choose hatred is to choose misery, not only for ourselves but for others. How could we have drifted so far from Your will?
Here, Solomon teaches us that love covers all sins. Is that true Father, that the reality of love actually covers all sins? You have taught us that is true and you told us Jesus that there are two over-arching commandments and if we satisfy those commandments we fulfill the entire law. We must love You with all of our heart mind and soul and our neighbors as ourselves. When we do so, love is the key to forgiveness and eternal life. Is hatred ever O.K.? We know you hate sin but You are the Judge, not us. Help us to work toward the redemption of every soul, even our enemies.
We also see that a life style of abundance, if lived in a hate filled circumstance, is much worse than a simple meal, even in an atmosphere of poverty. If love is absent, so are You.
You teach us that true love will make the ultimate sacrifice but when we are jealous, it results in cruelty greater than the grave. Jealousy truly fans a flame than can destroy relationships. But again You tell us that even a flood can not drown out the flame of love. Return us to the spirit of our first love with you and all of those we have ever loved. In Jesus' Holy name, we pray, amen.
Bruce Caldwell
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