Have you ever wondered why every single sermon and every single word that Jesus spoke boils down to love? Perhaps you knew this, but wondered where that notion came from. The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. (1 Timothy 1:5) When you have a pure heart, good conscience, and sincerity in your faith, you will move toward a disposition of loving. In life God gives us one great objective: to love the best you can and then love like God loves as much as you can in faith. You can love in every phase of life and in every walk of life. There are no preconditions and or requirements that need to be fulfilled by you to love. When we look at Jesus, we see a good heart, pure conscience and sincere faith in action. It was out of love that Jesus healed the sick, raised the dead, fed the hungry, and died for the unloving. From that example we find our queue to move as he did–charged with love. Jesus, in his ministry, wandered homeless, requiring miracles to sustain his sustinence and wellbeing. His disciples testify to that in the gospel and in the epistles. Just read the New Testament accounts of how their charges of love affected the greater world around them. Here is the challenge for today, since love is our charge, what have we been doing in love? Or has our inability to have a pure heart, good conscience, and sincerety of faith stopped us from loving in m moments we could have and should have loved? I know I missed a lot of opportunities as of late, have you?
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