Love’s redeeming work is done, fought the fight, the battle won. Death in vain forbids him rise, Christ has opened paradise. ~Charles Wesley
What Wondrous Love
To shame our sins He blushed in blood;
He closed His eyes to show us God;
Let all the world fall down and know
That none but God such love can show.
~Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
Lent is not a season of deprivation, but a return to love’s true source.
With those words we began a long lenten look at 1 Corinthians 13. In French, the word lent means slow, and for some of us slow grates. We are trained to look for quick results and stunning progress, but the journey to love takes time.
The path–with boulders to be climbed, and brambles that tear at the fabric of our confidence, and whispers on the breeze that we are fools to try–offers no short-cuts.
When the Easter hymns have faded and the chocolate eggs all been consumed, don’t forget: you were made for the hard work of Love. To let yourself be loved, and to pour out your life in love, and it is the most difficult thing you will ever attempt, and the one thing you will never achieve, unless you cling with all your might to Love Himself.
- Do you doubt you are loved? Remember the Cross.
- Do you feel powerless to love others? Remember the empty tomb.
- Do you fear the cost that comes with love? Jesus says, “I am with you always, to the end of he age.”
Finish, then, thy new creation;
pure and spotless let us be.
Let us see thy great salvation
perfectly restored in thee;
changed from glory into glory,
till in heaven we take our place,
till we cast our crowns before thee,
lost in wonder, love, and praise.
~Charles Wesley
Photograph by Melanie Hunt
3 replies on “But The Greatest Of These Is Love”
Happy Easter, Janet! Christ is risen! Hallelujah!
Hallelujah, indeed, Sylvie!
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