To God be all the glory we are all blessed with another day to rejoice in the presence of the Lord.  Today’s blog is entitled ‘What About Love” The reason I chose this title is simply because the word “love” is something that is often mentioned in this World but not truly practiced or seen, sadly but true. Scripture teaches us that without love we are just a bunch of noise. Pretty much like a drum set, if you look inside of a drum set there is noting inside of them but they make a bunch of loud sounds, many different sounds in fact. In this scripture Jesus himself says that the greatest commandment is that we love Him above all things and also to love our neighbors as we love ourselves. Now in today’s divided World so many of us claim Jesus but do not practice His greatest commandment. Now I want to make one thing very clear, giving gifts and helping the homeless is great and I applaud those who do it but those acts can be done without even having love in your heart. Bible teaches us that people will prophesy, cast out demons ect but the Lord will tell them “I never knew you” this is according to (Matthew 7:22-23) and also in (1 Corinthians 13) Paul speaks about how the acts of charity are nothing without love. Yes…Charity can be done without love. Sadly some acts become routine or part of something we are involved in but love isn’t the single most important motive. Matthew 22:37-40 Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ ³⁸ This is the first and great commandment. ³⁹ And the second is like it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ⁴⁰ On these two commandments hang all the Law and the Prophets.”  These are the teachings of the one we claim to follow (Jesus) but we refuse to be able to look beyond the faults of those who live among us. We preach a book of love and unity but yet have difficulties to forgive others that have offended us. Scripture goes on to show us this truth on love, 1 John 4:20 If someone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, ^[a]how can he love God whom he has not seen? To close I just want to say “Love isn’t love until you give it to someone” love is more than just a word, it’s an act of affection and gratitude. I don’t care how many church service you attend weekly or how much you fed the hungry or how long you been preaching, if love and obedient to God’s commandment isn’t your reason then you are wasting your time and today would be a great day to repent from your self motive and submit to the word of the Lord. Let us all learn how to truly love and Jesus loves us! God bless you all.