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Love Language Number One

Posted by gkaiser on March 31, 2008

I get a daily devo. emailed to me by a longtime friend. One morning this is what I found in my inbox:”Is life not full of opportunities for learning love? Every man and woman every day has a thousand of them. The world is not a playground; it is a schoolroom. Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the one eternal lesson for us all is how better we can love. -Henry Drummond

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HALLELULIA- JESUS IS RISEN! RISEN INDEED!!

THANK GOD IT'S FRIDAY

We do all we can to escape pain, no? People are sick who do things to bring pain upon themselves... but a sure mark of a true hero is one who takes pain so that others might escape it.

Jesus is The Hero of all Heroes, in part, due to all He took upon Himself for the sake of love for us. This coming Friday is "good" because He Who knew no sin became sin for US- with each and every one of us in mind. His sacrifice -was- obedience, it was the personification of God's love... wrapped indeed in death and despair. But He knew what was coming. So do those of us who follow Him!

Like most people I'd love to rush to Resurrection Day.

I'd LOVE to bypass Friday with it's suffering, rejection, lies stacked upon hatred all heaped up against Jesus... then consider that the hell of Friday makes Easter Sunday's heaven SO MUCH BRIGHTER, the Absolute Victory so much more complete! The meaning of Easter has Good Friday at it's core.

Truly... thank GOD it's Friday.

LARRY NORMAN

The two most influential comets that ever passed through my spiritual music solar system were Larry Norman and Keith Green. I mention Keith because in for me, he and Larry are the Christian musical "giants" in terms of real impact.

We lost Larry this past week. I knew him fairly well. Suffice it to say he was (in my view, only exceeded by Bruce Cockburn) the finest spiritual-core lyricist we have had. Keith was a personal friend and peer.

Larry was like many of us, a character who had his own temptations and often made rash, avoidable choices that I'm trusting the grace of God is sufficient for.

Perhaps Larry was more the direct evangelist, Keith the reformer of the Christian music scene. We needed and need a lot more of both.

They rankled a good many people for a good many reasons- but Keith's focus on holiness was huge.

Larry was in many ways a California loner. In any case, I trust he's home and I expect his long and deep impact, very different but in some ways similar to Keith's, will continue to inspire and haunt us in good ways.

Larry simply rocked when almost no other Jesus music person or band did. My fave lyrics of his are probably "The Beatles sang 'all you need is love'... and then then they broke up" and "You say we beat the Russians to the moon and I say you starved your children to do it". In-your-face realities that just didn't "edify" Christian hit radio, In the day, this the stuff I was so inspired by.

The need/lack of genuine, on-going accountability was and is in my view, the source of many troubles in -any one's- life, and there were times when my hero's surely could have sought, used and benefited with more of it. But I'm truly glad God shared them with us for I and many others learned and will continue to learn a great deal from them both.