Ligaments for life

Many people have heard that love is the greatest of all those things that we must seek to find and live with. We see this all over the worldly cultures. We have countless stories of people who are willing to sacrifice anything for love (think Romeo and Juliet). I believe this desire for love is a God given desire and something that He has hard wired in to us, as His creation. Unfortunately, love is like the various other gifts God has given us in that we, through our sin, have developed some screwy concepts about how love is suppossed to be. In many ways we have made love more complicated than it was created to be.

The Bible gives some pretty clear direction on love. We must love God first. We show Him our love for Him by following His commandments. So how do we follow his commandments? I think it begins with living our lives as the incredibly wonderful creations He has made us to be. A major part of this is using those gifts He has given us (1 Corinthians 12). We must use these gifts to their maximum potential and ability. We must also allow others in the church to do the same thing. When we are all doing this then we will act as a single body that accomplishes great things. This body though is not that far different from our own bodies in that it's joints are held together by a series of ligaments.

Ligaments are those strands of fibers that literally hold our joints together. They prevent our joints from bending in ways that would be detrimental to our bodies. The body of Christ is no different. The ligaments (translated unity) that hold us together is our love (Colossians 3:14) for one another. I believe this principle can be applied to our other relationships.

So this Father's Day I would encourage you to show your love for the Heavenly Father by following His commandments. Be willing to follow Him to the ends of the earth and do whatever He wants you to do no matter the cost.