Without Love.... it`s nothing

I listened to a sermon last night and finished it today while I was riding the Metro. It had to do with Jesus-followers loving each other and the world. So I thought, `Wouldn`t it be weird to not have any prisons or social service agencies or AIDS clinics or drug rehabs or homeless shelters`. Answer: Yes, it would be weird, but I also thought how amazing it would be if everyone loved Jesus and people didn`t break the law because they loved Jesus and people didn`t smoke crack so we didn`t need to go and take their kids because they love Jesus, and people didn`t have sex outside of marriage and they waited for the person that God has for them, and people loved Jesus so they let people that didn`t have a home, stay in their home. Wow! I`m sure that this isn`t as interesting to read as it is in my head, but wouldn`t that be Heaven... It will be Heaven, where no sin will have any affect at all on the new world and only those who loved Jesus will be there, and I want people to be there - so let`s go love on a world that doesn`t know what is happening to them. And let`s not just do good because we feel good or because we help the `circle of life`, but because we love Jesus! Jesus was obedient to do what God the Father wanted Him to do, and He went to the poor, the destitute, the prostitutes, the non-believers, the demon possessed, the tax collectors, the drunks - and He just loved on them like no one had ever loved before. Be a radical with me... Love Jesus more than anything else, trust in Him more than you trust in your own breathing, and love on the world with the power of Jesus - a world full of people that the rest of the world shuns away... and we love them! Don`t be a noisy gong, but let`s love; don`t be really smart, but let`s love, because Jesus says that it all boils down to love... `Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind, soul & strength... and love your neighbor as yourself`...
Pray for me as I love people here in Montréal. I have been called to love the down & out, the rich, the educated, the poor, the prostitutes, the fancy, the people that God loves - and so have you... so let`s do it.... Faith, hope & love, but the greatest of all of these is love... ENabLED. Dwight I Corinthians 13... be blameless and scandalously love people for no reason except that Jesus wants us to