Let your Love be Intense

1 Peter 4:8
Above all, let you love for one another be intense, because love covers a multitude of sins.

We all have sins but in the love of Christ we can forgive those who sin.  We can love those who are hard to love.  This is what Christians are called to do.  But some may have the wrong idea of what this means to let our love be intense.

Glynn Wolfe died at the age of 89.  He died alone and no one claimed his body. But, Glynn Wolfe, described by the LA Times as a Bible thumping minister, married 29 times. He was listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the Most Married Man in the world. He married teenagers, grandmothers, farm girls, and city girls, changing wives like changing dance partners. He could talk love and convince women that he loved them. Twenty-nine times he was asked, "... do you pledge yourself only to her, so long as you both shall live?" Twenty nine times Glynn Wolf said, "I Do," but he never did.  All his ex-wives and all but one of his 19 children and 40 grand-children skipped the funeral. 

Jesus Christ loves each of us. No matter what we have done, still loves us and does not forsake us or throw us aside. It is his love for us that is our ultimate salvation. This is the love we are to try to emulate. We are to have the love of Christ in us. It is not about being able to talk about love, but to be love.   

Prayer:
Thank you Lord, for making me all that I am. Thank you for the love of those around me and the love that I have in Christ to share. Amen.