BOUNDLESS NOT BOUNDED LOVE

(These One A Days are added to each day)

A little girl was playing with her dolls one day, but after a while she climbed onto her mother’s lap to give her a very big hug. “How nice, my darling,” the mother responded, “but what brought this on when you seemed to be enjoying your dolls so much?”

“They never love me back, mommy,” the little girl replied. “They never love me back.”

Are you willing to respond differently to a sometimes unloving world? Love people who won’t love you back? Love them anyway when they are showing you nothing but their backs?

Nowhere in the Bible does it say, “If your brother has sinned against you, you have every right to sin against him twice over.” Or, “Love thy neighbor as thyself, unless thy neighbor has been difficult to get along with.”

To paraphrase what the Bible does teach, “Don’t leave a gift at the altar if your heart is filled with anger or hate. First go out and give yourself the gift of a forgiving heart.”

The meaning is crystal-clear. No amount of monetary giving is equal to a forgiving heart. No amount of hymn singing or prayer praying is equal to a charitable soul. There is no number or length of services that will do for you what an absence of malice will do.

No love in your heart? No love practiced toward your fellowman? Then indeed, you are as a noisy gong and a clanging cymbal. A lot of religious noise, but little or no substance.

“A new commandment I give you. Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” John 13:34

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