LOVE DOES: LOVE MAKES MUSIC not NOISE!

Let love be your highest goal!  1Cor. 14:1a

 

 

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.  1Cor. 13:1

Have you ever been to a recital where the only instrument was a set of cymbals?  Or maybe you've visited the theatre and sat through a gong concert????  The likelihood of any of that is actually zilch. Because neither one of the instruments are ones that on their own can make music.  They can add and even take away from the musicality of a piece, but on their own....they are noisemakers.    Which is what Paul said speaking in tongues or foreign languages without the thread of love is.

It's sad how many marriages end not because of adultery, or financial maladies, but mainly because of communication.    Either it's not enough, it's bad, or totally unhealthy communication.   We all hate being misunderstood....we all have a story to tell, a message to convey, and because of our backgrounds and up-bringings our abilities to communicate that maybe challenging.  So Paul says if I don't first love others when I open my mouth...whether I am spiritually gifted or multi-lingual what comes out of my mouth is noise...it turns people off.

Are you that guy, that gal...that people frequently misunderstand you?  Listen to how I asked the question......if people frequently misunderstand you it can't be all them are wrong.   Ask yourself do you honestly attempt to get to know people with your core motive being to learn how to love them?  See without knowing them.....you can't love them.  You have to approach every person you meet as valuable in your sight, because they are seen as precious in God's sight.  They are His child, whether they are alive to that yet or not.  This includes your wives (who are are God's daughter's and His gift to you....Nincompoop), your children (His blessings to you) your boss (the very person he positioned in authority over you for a reason) your neighbors (who you need to show the love of Christ to as well as learn from them) your family (that you didn't necessarily pick but were the soil that contains the life nutrients needed to help you germinate) and the stranger (the one in front of you, behind you, besides you, all around that are the answers to your "who needs to meet you today GOD," prayers)

So for the record......are you an instrument of His love used to make beautiful music...or are you clanging gong?  Be about our Father's Business......LGLP