Sounding Brass
I chose the way of emotion and let my hurt determine my course of actions. It’s not that my pain didn’t matter. Oh it matters; He cares. Still, I fed my emotion, ignored Truth and believed the lie. Love wasn’t my theme. I was sounding brass.
1 Corinthians 13 {NKJV}
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.
When my friend, Amanda, began visiting our church I worried all too much about what I thought might hinder her. I got caught up in my own what ifs. Yet after her third Sunday visit she shared so beautifully what really grabbed her heart as a group of women huddled together in prayer—love.
They were hugging, holding hands & touching one another on the shoulder. It was beautiful! I wanted to run up to them & hop in the middle & say, “Can I join in?” You can see they genuinely cared for one another. It honestly inspired me.
It didn’t stop there. In the pew right in front of us she saw the love of Christ yet again as two other women repeated nearly the same scenario. Love. Isn’t this what the Body of Christ should look like?
The details of that service weren’t up to me. Had I “prepared” her for what I thought she needed I would’ve gotten in His way. I’ve done that all too often. Sadly, we, the Church, continue to miss the mark when we choose our own way and fail to let love be our theme.
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
It’s not enough to know the Truth, see the need and recognize the Answer. Does not Satan, himself, know the truth? Love is the vehicle in which Truth is carried.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
We can teach and preach and hold our functions and send out missions but if we miss love it profits nothing. We play our instruments and sing our songs and teach our children Scripture but without love woven through our giving and doing it profits nothing.
It’s time that we, the Church, get back to basics, return to our first Love and love because He first loved us. Let’s love others right in the midst of their issues and struggles. Let’s show compassion and bathe our words, prayers and actions in love without being so quick to insert an answer.
I know the answers in His Word for my current struggles. Yet in the walking out of Truth it’s the compassion of others and the validation of my own hurt and feelings that becomes balm to my soul.
4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails.
I need the love of Christ through His Body. So I want to be the love of Christ through His Body. To rise above the sounding brass and let His love flow to hurting people… to let the world know that His love still covers. Because by this shall all men know that we are His disciples…
that we have love one to another.
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I SIMPLY LOVE THIS …AND ITS SO NEEDED YOU PUT PUT IT INTO…WORDS OF TRUTH AGAIN..LOVE THE SONG!! AND I LOVE YOU …YOU ARE LOVE TO ME MY RENA
Thank You Rena..Perfection I am no where near but the one gift I asked Him for is Love..help me to love. As with any thing we ask of we are tested. the one thing I have learned in all these years no matter where I am is His Love Never Fails and Yes It still Covers.Yes I’m a clanging symbol but He isn’t finished with us yet! Thank You …for your Love sister
Such a great post. Too often we see people (and we ourselves) go through the motions, doing what we’re “supposed” to do…with no care to the people we’re here to minister.
It’s all about love. Not judging, not condemnation, not ourselves. It’s about Him and His love for us.
Oh that is so true about, “We can teach and preach and hold our functions and send out missions but if we miss love it profits nothing. We play our instruments and sing our songs and teach our children Scripture but without love woven through our giving and doing it profits nothing.
It’s time that we, the Church, get back to basics, return to our first Love and love because He first loved us. Let’s love others right in the midst of their issues and struggles. Let’s show compassion and bathe our words, prayers and actions in love without being so quick to insert an answer.
There seems to be less and less of love, mercy and even grace these days and more about pointing out faults, condemning, judging, refusing and abandoning, and its heart breaking.
What message does that send, particularly when we are suppose to represent One who loved us all, despite what we have or might do.
I had posted about something along this line in my Tuesday post for, “In Other Words Tuesday”. The post is called, It’s about Others and I tell you, my heart breaks when it seems more and more, there are cliques and circles that seem to close off, of others and ignore the hurt and the broken, the lost and the rejected who sometimes just need to know, they DO matter, and they matter so much to God, and He DOES love them and that, no one is to far gone from Him…
People need love and compassion and mercy and grace and yet that seems so difficult to be shown over condemnation or judgement.
A kind word goes so much further…..and cost so much less.
Great post! And so true..its not about judging, condemnation, not about ourselves..but it is ALL about God and His love for all of us, not a select few.
Great great post…I came here via “Here’s My Cup, Lord” and making sure to follow you on twitter/facebook as well…
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