Let Love Be (Part 3 of 3)

     What if we were to reverse the waste, abandon the greed, destroy what is self-serving to instead become drenched in the overflow and get back into the business of doing exactly what it is we were created to do?  To do love and to be love.  To be hearts in the shape of Christ, walking it out step-by-step across the planet until Heaven comes.  It may sound far-fetched, but who cares?  If we carried love into the darkest places the whole world would be brighter and everyone could see where they are going.  Jesus made it simple when he said in Matthew 22:37-40 “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.  This is the greatest and first commandment. And the second is like it: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”  On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”  If we love God and love others, the full extent of the law is being fulfilled in us.
    I don’t know about you, but when my time passes and I meet my maker, I want but one great accomplishment to be stamped across my earthly file.  SHE LOVED WELL.  More than I want to be pretty and in good shape I want to be love.  More than I want to accumulate riches I want to drip love.  More than I want to be a notable author, I want to live love.  More than I want to raise children to succeed in the world, I want to raise children who are love.  More than I want to be remembered for knowledge or wisdom, a talent or ability, I want to be remembered for love.  I want to love when it’s hard, when it hurts, when it seems impossible and to love with a love that stops the flow of tears and turns frowns upside down.  I want to love with a hope that can never be undone, and with a fury that makes demons cry.  I want to be of the love that defeats evil, the most excellent kind of 1st Corinthians 13:4-7 love; “Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude.  It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth.  It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”  And when I’m gone, I want my love to remain, to keep working, and to keep loving.  I want to leave a legacy of love.
    The only way we can feasibly love the way God loves us is to first receive the full offering of His love and let it steep. Let it be. To let love be our DNA, our ground-wire, our equalizer and neutralizer. God’s love is in us so that we can be love to the world. Let us let love be.

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