Are you just noise?

NOT SURE WHY BUT MY VIDEO WON'T UPLOAD. 

WILL TRY SOMETHING LATER

HERE'S A PLACE HOLDER

I was reminded of a song by FOR KING & COUNTRY while watching the sea lions off San Francisco's Pier 39 today:

The Proof of Your Love

If I sing but don't have love

I waste my breathe with every songI bring, an empty voice

A hollow noise

If I speak with a silver tongue

Convince a crowd but don't have love

I leave a bitter taste

With every word I say

Chorus:

So let my life be the proof

The proof of Your love

Let my love look like You

And what You're made of

How you lived, how You died

Love is sacrifice

So let my life be the proof

The proof of Your love

If I give to a needy soul

But don't have love then who is poor

It seems all the poverty

Is found in me

I heard a lot of noise today. I saw some showmanship between males while some young ones played around them. And I wondered how often the world hears only noise from Christ-followers? We're noisy when we...

• care more about being heard than hearing another
• want to feel good more than we want to help
• look for what we can gain more than what we can give
• love the inside of our church buildings more than the surrounding community
• use our wealth on ourselves and give the leftovers to God
• gossip
• walk away when times get tough
• think about our answer instead of listening to a life
• WHAT WOULD YOU ADD?

Here's how Eugene Peterson translates 1 Corinthians 13:1-3:


(The Message) "If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. ²If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing. ³If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love."


I don't want to be just a bunch of noise, footprints in the sand. Love is what makes the difference. Love doesn't look for what it can gain it just gives. Love sticks around, sees it through. Love shows up but doesn't need to be recognized.


How's the noise in your life?