The Proof of Your Love

I have a handful of new posts sitting in my draft box, waiting to be finished, but I couldn't put off writing about this beautiful song. The other day, my best friend told me about a Christian song which is based off 1 Corinthians 1-13. I was skeptical at first, because I have fairly picky standards for Christian songs. As soon as I got home, I watched the music video she sent me. 
I was close to tears as I watched in the early hours of the morning. I was not expecting such a powerful message along with a great melody! It is something I have been thinking much about lately, and one of the reasons I wanted to start this blog. So, I decided the song was too good not to share! Excited to hear it yet? (:

Here is the link to the music video.

"If I speak with human eloquence, and angelic ecstasy, but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. If I speak God's word with power, revealing all of His mysteries and making everything as plain as day, and if I have faith to say to a mountain, 'jump' and it jumps, but I don't love, I am nothing. If I give all I earn to the poor, or even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten no where. So, no matter what I say, no matter what I believe, no matter what I do, I am bankrupt without love."

Pretty influential, huh? It's something to think about! 

Blessed Mother Teresa also has much to say about this topic: 

"It is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the doing.  It is not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. We can do no great things; only small things with great love. There is a terrible hunger for love. We all experience that in our lives – the pain, the loneliness.  We must have the courage to recognize it.  The poor you may have right in your own family. Find them. Love them."  

“The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.” - Blessed Mother Teresa 

There is, without a doubt, a hunger for love in our culture today. It is a very serious epidemic that has a devastating affect on each and every one of us. Of course, from the first moment of the original sin, our love has never been what it was meant to be, however, it has gotten worse and worse as the world continues to grow in darkness. We have an important duty, as soldiers of Christ, to love everyone, in every little thing we do and say, and in every situation. Yet, it can be quite intimidating to have this duty of being the proof of Christ's love in the world. Our new papa, Pope Francis, courageously exclaimed, "We must not be afraid of goodness, of tenderness!" 
So let's get out there and not be afraid to love others with God's love. I'll try if you do! (:

The Proof Of Your Love by For King & Country 
Lyrics:

If I sing but don't have love
I waste my breath with every song
I bring an empty voice, a hollow noise
If I speak with a silver tongue
Convince a crowd but don't have love
I leave a bitter taste with every word I say

So let my life be the proof,
The proof of Your love
Let my love look like You and what You're made of
How You lived, how You died
Love is sacrifice
So let my life be the proof,
The proof of Your love

If I give 
To a needy soul but don't have love then who is poor?
It seems all the poverty is found in me

So let my life be the proof,
The proof of Your love
Let my love look like You and what You're made of
How You lived, how You died
Love is sacrifice
Oh, let my life be the proof,
The proof of Your love

When it's all said and done
When we sing our final song
Only love remains
Only love remains

Let my life be the proof,
The proof of Your love
Let my love look like You and what You're made of
How You lived, how You died
Love is sacrifice
So let my life be the proof,
The proof of Your love.

I plan on writing more about this topic; there's so much to say... But for now, I hope you all love this song as much as I do, and share it with others! 

Happy Feast Day of Saint Joseph!

Con amore in Cristo,
Bluebird