Four Letters yet so Powerful

Love!? 

We hear the word used all the time and almost everywhere we go. We tell our boyfriend/ girlfriend we love them after we've been dating them for three months, we don't love them when they make us mad. We love our TV shows and our favorite foods and books. We are in love with movie stars and the roles they play, but what do we actually mean when we say "I love....?

Do we really comprehend the power of this four letter word? Where did this word that is so widely used today get its start? I shared on Wednesday that with the same breath we say that we love our friends and also that we love taco's or ice cream. What is it that has made us feel that we need to use this one word to express how much we feel about virtually everything.  Thinking back to your day today or this past week and how many times can you remember attributing the word love to something or someone. 

Has love become just another word that we have lost the meaning and significance of it? Is it possible for us to love our friends and tacos or have we gone so far to corrupt the meaning of love and its original purpose. 

Maybe love has several different meanings and connotations to it that allows us to use it so freely. Really what separates something between a "like" and a "love" for us because they seem to be used pretty interchangeably. It seems as though in our relationships we are pretty quick to say "I love you" and to express it. We are quick to find excuses for why it wasn't love when we break up or say that we don't love something when we feel hurt or betrayed, I have to ask the question again do we really comprehend what love is? 

What Determines If Your Good?

So many people in our world and in our schools think that life is about being a good person. "Well I am a good person and do things that help people and I mean I have never killed anyone, so yeah why wouldn't I go to heaven?" Have you heard this coming from the mouths of people at your school? How about this one, "Well there is just no proof for me to believe that there is a God. I mean its just part of my personality for me not to believe, besides why would he allow so much pain and suffering to gone and to good people?"
We are faced with the toughest questions and even though sometimes we don't have all the answers, we are still a testimony to people through our response and our behaviour.

1 Corinthians 10:31 says "So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God."

Romans 1:19-20 "They know the truth about God because he has made it obvious to them. For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God"

What are your thoughts and questions?

What's the Big Deal?

So why should it matter who I choose to hangout with? Who cares if the kids I hangout with cuss or joke about things that are inappropriate. Its not like I do those things too. I just like being around them because they are cool and they accept me.

Is there anything wrong with my sort of thinking, I mean it shouldn't matter because its not like it effects or hurts anyone. It shouldn't matter anyways because they know I am Christian and I don't cuss all the time with them.

What are your thoughts?