Love is a bridge

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Love

Just four letters long  and yet a word that is packed with a punch.

To be loved and to give love are very much part of the true christian message.

God is after all the source; the essence ; the very beginning of what real and honest love is. 

Love is action.

I have been reminded by the ideas of love in our Beth Moore Bible study on The Fruit of the Spirit and from a very challenging and compelling sermon on love from  1Corinthians 13: 4-13

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

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

This is the love that is fully found and lived in the person of the Lord Jesus. His life and death are perfect expressions of Gods love for us.

We are called to love in this same way. Sacrificially, costly and fully for this is our reward and we are as if nothing without love.

Love counts. It costs. It blesses others.

This past week was full of so much of life. Tradgedy, death, grief, excitiment, joy , thrill, - living and learning, sharing.

In all of this, I have been reflecting on the part that really loving people plays. 

People are built up by love, People are cared for by our love. People are comforted and feel as if they matter, by our very love we show them. 

I have been reminded of how broken, lonely, scared, hard, unloved people actually are and that we, those who trully can have supernatural, sacrificial love for even our enemey, we can love in a way that counts for eternity. We can love in a way that really does love others.

Love can be the very bridge that Jesus walks across into anothers life.

So, take the risk and love!