Whatever You Do...
"Though I speak with the tongues of men
and of angels, but have not love, I have
become sounding brass or a clanging
cymbal."
1 Corinthians 13: 1
Consider a cobbler who is so busy making
shoes for other people that his own children
go barefooted. At the very least, this shows
a lack of love for his children. When love is
absent, life is unbalanced.
Apostle Paul begins his chapter on love with
illustrations of “ministry” replacing love in the
church. He cites few commendable activities:
using the gift of tongues or prophecy, having
spiritual knowledge and faith, being
generous
to the poor, and dying for the sake of Christ in
1 Corinthians 13:1-3.
Then he says if any, or all, of these ministries
are performed without love and for carnal or
self-promoting reasons—then the
ministries
themselves are worthless.
Better not to undertake such ministries at all
than to undertake them without the motivation
and practice of love.
Consider this paraphrase of Paul’s words in
1 Corinthians 10:31: “Whatever you do, do it
in the Spirit of love.” Clothe your words and
deeds today with a cloak of true love.
"Every Christian would agree that
a man’s spiritual health is exactly
proportional to his love for God."
C. S. Lewis