Doing Good
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
– 1 Corinthains 13:7
Something that is becoming more and more clear to me is this: Love hangs on. It perseveres and continues. It never gives up.
The reason love doesn’t give up is because it is connected to hope. The hope is that God knows us, cares for us, and will see us through.
Keep doing right, even when it hurts. So many people give up just before their breakthrough. When in the furnace of affliction, hang on. Today may be hard, but another day is coming.
There is a time when every last tear will be wiped away and we will once again be with Him. We groan and pant for you Lord God. Help us to stay faithful to you through the good and the bad. Help us to hang on.
Category: Musings
His major contribution to the world was not a set of aphorisms. He was born in a turdy barn, grew up in a dirty world, got baptized in a muddy river. He put his hands on the oozing wounds of lepers, he let whores brush his hair and soldiers pull it out. He went to dinner with dirtbags, both religious and irreligious. His closest friends were a collection of crude fishermen and cultural traitors. He felt the spittle of the Pharisees on his face and the metal hooks of the jailer’s whip in the flesh of his back. He got sweaty and dirty and bloody – and he took all of the sin and mess of the world onto himself, onto the cross to which he was nailed naked.