Mixed up Love!

Matthew 23: 27

²⁷ “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful,

but within are full of dead people's bones and all uncleanness.”

Can you imagine anyone in the church, using language like this to another church person?

Most people wouldn’t consider that this statement was offered in love, but that’s exactly how Jesus offered it.

I wonder if the church today, has the true concept of love mixed up?

Maybe if we understood the true definition of love, this area wouldn’t be so misunderstood.

I think we could all agree, that Peter said these words… “but He is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.” (2 Peter 3: 9)

If it is the hope of Jesus that not a single one would perish, wouldn’t He do or say just about anything, to get someone’s undivided attention?

Look at the depth of love Jesus went to, to save a bunch of wretch’s like us.

Talk about love…but be sure you know how ugly that love looked like.

Are you willing to love someone so deeply, that you’ll tell them the truth, regardless of how they’ll feel toward you afterward?

Maybe what we think is love, isn’t love at all.

When my folks offered correction in my life, I knew whole heartedly that they loved me.

They would’ve done just about anything, to save me from walking down the broad path.

Ask yourself: Is it possible that my concept of love, doesn’t match up with the Bible?