The Tragedy

There is a great tragedy occurring in our land, “love growing cold.”* It is perhaps the greatest sorrow of all time and playing out on all our devices. Love is not your right nor conjured up by you. It is first a Being, God, and in Him it is created and shared with all humans. But it can be lost, given away, seeped out of our angry hearts and vanished forever. The process has been exponentially accelerated by our addiction to those same devices that draw out of us the anger that is chocking our only life blood, love. It is sorrowful to see so many good, well-intentioned people trading in their free gift of love for cold rightness. You may be right but by the same whipping post you tie others to is the same post your anger is tying you to. “We shall overcome” is not a product of hatred parading as solidarity but a product of a growing love and a humble admission that there but by Almighty’s Grace, go I. We, not one single human, is ever more than the wretch we were born as(of which I am the worst); except and only by the grace of God in His Son Christ being allowed Lordship over our wretchedness. Do not let your anger cause you to sin and the greatest sin is to trade in your love for your rightness, a rightness that you don’t own.  You can lose the love in your heart; it can grow cold, and then it is gone; you can’t love others; you can’t love the color blue; you can’t love your dog; your love has grown cold and is gone.  Jesus does not lie.  Let that truth sink in.   “No one is good except God alone.”**  

*Matthew 24:12

**Mark 10:18

PS:  If you say, “How do I know if my love is being lost?”  Read 1 Corinthians 13 and you will know.

“It’s only in the mirror of God’s Word that you see yourself accurately, and only in his grace that you find help for what you see.”

New Morning Mercies, David Tripp, June 4^th

For further evidence read Hebrews 3:12-13