A little love

1 Corinthians 13: 3

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

I am stuck on Corinthians still; I guess a hold over sentiment from the weeding this weekend. Love is the tough one sometimes. Maybe it is because I am a guy…. Males seem understand faith, we get the hope part, but the Love part we tend to rush over. You know that touchy feely crazy thing called love. Love often does not make a lot of sense to guys. When we love something all reason seems to go out the window, and that usually means we give up the one thing that we hold so tightly to, and that is control. I believe that is the reason Christ told us that the two most important things we could do is to love our God, and love our neighbor. For us to truly do that we have to give up the control we hold so tightly to, and give it to God. We have to learn to become the pilot.

I always thought that bumper sticker was a little off. You know the one that says Jesus is my co-pilot. He should be the pilot, not the co-pilot, he has logged far more hours in the cockpit than we have, yet we often feel compelled to put him in the right hand seat, not the left. When I turned to the Lord......I mean really started trusting him....not as a plan (A). but as the one and only plan; the first thing I felt was peace; the second thing I felt was love. Once you get that feeling, you never want it to leave. It is not just a feeling of love, but an absence of anger, an absence of frustration. When you let the Lord take the wheel you start to live, not just survive. So if you have not done it yet I urge you to do it. Quit getting in on the left hand side of the car of life, jump in and ride shotgun, the ride is smooth, the driver is experienced, and the scenery that you have been missing while you have been watching the road is breathtaking. There are a lot of people out there that need to hear, and experience that love and you cannot give it to them with both hands on the wheel.

Peace,
Rev. Thetford