Love Makes the World Go 'Round

~~~ Acts 6: 1-10 ~~~ Psalm 100 ~~~ John 15: 18-21 ~~~

Throughout the days and weeks between Easter and Pentecost the church nourishes our faith; providing numerous accounts of how the number of believers grew.

"Day after day the churches grew stronger in faith and increased in number."

We are also given the history of our own path to Christianity. If the early believers had not been open to the urgings of the Holy Spirit we might not be Christians.

It is good that we hear these stories each year as our faith is built upon the faith of all those who have gone before us.

Psalm 100 says,

"Know that the Lord is God; he made us, his we are;

his people the flock he tends."

God has been with us and looking after our well being throughout all of the ages. We were always a part of the divine plan. God uses his people to accomplish his works on earth now just as he did in the early church.

Less we forget; we do not belong to the world...we belong to God. We are only here for a short time. Our home is in heaven with God. We belong to him and he will call each of us home when the time comes.

Jesus says, "I have chosen you out of the world, the world hates you."

 The world is wrought with evil and filled with temptation. Daily we are faced with the opportunity to confess that we do not belong to this world. This world cannot bring us true peace or joy because those only exist in their pure form in heaven.

In this world we settle for what we know as peace and joy, even though this satisfaction falls short of what is in store for us in heaven.

Because God loves us he has granted us bits of consolation in this world through those who love us. We too have been commissioned to extend this same measure of consolation through loving others.

The greatest commandment is to love.

Love makes the world go 'round.

In 1965 Burt Bacharach  composed a song titled, "What the World Needs Now; one of the lines says 'love is the only thing the world needs more of'. I think intuitively many know that love is the only thing that makes this world inhabitable.

So today as I celebrate my fortieth anniversary with my husband, I stand to give testimony to the power of love. With love it is possible to make marriage commitment until death parts us.

I am happy to have the love of my husband and my family.

Look around you today for the signs of love this world can provide.

Perhaps it is the softness of a baby's cheek.