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EVERYTHING ELSE IS VAIN



EVERY DEED WE INVOLVE IN AND TERM ‘GOOD’ IS NOTHING WHEN LOVE IS NOT INVOLVED
Today, like every other day, my mind has been busy thinking about so many things and even wandering sometimes but this thought about love…I decided to post.

I’ve been thinking, why do people fight? Why is there so much hatred in our minds against one another? Why are leaders mean and ruthless? Why are the followers hateful and remorseless? Why do we keep getting and losing with the same intensity? Why is it that even those who give to charity, the human rights agitators, pastors and all others who seem to live just lives end up unhappy and their deeds unpleasing to their maker?

The bible got my answers. The book of 1st Corinthians 13 made so much meaning to me today than ever! Verses 1-3 says, “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity. I am become a sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal; and though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge, and though I have all faith so I could move mountains and have not charity, I am nothing; and though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profits me nothing”

That’s clear enough. Right? A sounding brass there signifies a nonstop clangorous noise! That is what we, alongside our deeds become when we have no love...Noise, an unwanted sound! No matter what you do or who you think you are, that self righteousness of yours is like a filthy rag if love is lacking in your heart. Love is giving with a sincere heart your mighty ‘comforts’ for the comfort and happiness of other people. It is doing good without expecting anything else in return. Love is seeking the good of other people. Love is not selfish but rather sacrificial.

I like to share this beautiful quote by Aberjhani, “love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man”

I have not said much but I have said little. Does this make sense to you? Dear reader, I urge you to polish your heart with love! Without love, everything else is vain. I now drop my golden pen in the beautiful basket of love. Smiles…
STAY BLESSED!

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