“…on these two commands hang all the law and the prophets.” It is, of course, love. Paul goes into great detail about the types of behavior and attitudes associated with love in 1 Corinthians 13, using rather lyric imagery and movement to do so. Love is patient, love is kind…I wrote a poem about it, though I’m not the first to do so, nor will I be the last. I don’t know about you, but I usually took this and applied it to the way I should love my fellow man. But that’s only half the command. We are to love God as well, and though He IS love, it is true that God is, in fact, sometimes difficult to love—perhaps more so than our corporeal neighbors. How do you love the Holy and Unseen? How do you love the One who allows such affliction to reign upon the earth? How do you love the One who leads through the Valley of the Shadow for reasons He will not give? Even those who count us our enemies are not always silent—they cry out, send us video tapes, and post their daily jihad jargon on websites. But it is frequently the case that God is silent, and will not give the answer I desire. Who else has communication issues with God? Among us mortals, communication is touted as the number one issue relationships fizzle. I suspect it’s probably true.
Amidst the madness of your petitions to that cosmic silence (keeping in mind that Paul was deliberate with his word choice), remember that love is, first, patient. Oswald Chambers says that the attitude which declares “I must have it now!” is mere lust.
“Is not He who formed the ear/worth the time it takes to hear?” Even if the time is great.
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