MEDITATIONS

By B. C. MONEY

The theme of our Sunday School lesson for last Sunday was Love As Taught By Jesus.   When he said to love the Lord with all thy heart, soul, mind and strength and love our neighbor as ourselves and as we think of the power of love we find it exceeds all else for it is stronger than hate and more powerful than the Sword and can melt the hardest heart and cement ties that cannot be broken.

As we think of Jonathan and David, how the ties of love knit their souls together that only death could separate.

And there was the beautiful friendship that was so strong that bound Naomi and Ruth so close that when Naomi persuaded her daughter-in-law to return to her own country Ruth said, “Intreat me not to leave thee or to return from following after thee for whither thou goest I will go and where thou lodgest I will lodge.   Thy people shall be my people and thy God my God.   Where thou diest will I die and there will I be buried.   The Lord do so to me and more also if aught but death part thee and me.”   Yes, that is one of the most beautiful examples of love and devotion that ever existed between a mother and her daughter-in-law.

Love is deep as the ocean and high as the highest mountain and broad as the universe.   The Bible is filled with love and yet the world is starving for lack of it.

May we resolve to love more and hate less so that this world will be a better place to live.