Sometimes a wealth of words takes away the punch from an important message, so this week I've condensed my words to a minimum. Here we go:

Words - Love = Nothing. (1 Cor. 13:1)

Faith - Love = Nothing. (1 Cor. 13:2; Gal. 5:6)

Sacrifice - Love = Nothing. (1 Cor. 13:3)

Love is not about you, but it is about others. (1 Cor. 13:5)

Love is not about how good you feel about others, but about how committed you are to others, regardless of your feelings. (1 Cor. 13:7)

Remember: Anything - Love = Nothing. (1 Cor. 13:1-3)

Love is the only real lasting thing in this world. (1 Cor. 13:13)

Love is not best expressed in words, but in actions. (1 John 3:16-18)

Nothing says we are Christians better than our committed love to one another, and our willingness to love those who do not return our love. (John 13:34-35; Matt. 5:44-48)

Does this sound hard? Then you must let this truth sink deep into your heart: Anything - Love = Nothing. (1 Cor. 13:1-3)

Nothing makes us more like God than to love. Nothing! (1 John 4:7, 11)

Live to give love. Commit to this whether you receive love in return or not.

With this mindset, you will have a ministry everywhere you go, and you won't need to wait for a "program" to do what you should be doing all the time and everywhere you go with everyone you meet anyway.

Therefore, if you refuse to love, may this truth haunt you the remainder of your meaningless and useless life: Anything - Love = Nothing.

This is what all your words, efforts, actions, and life ends in apart from love... Nothing.

Nothing...

© Richard J. Vincent, July 21, 2002