Crash, Boom, Bang
They packed us into the end section of the bleachers when I was in my high school marching band. I played marimba in the percussion section and our team was LOUD! We had several people that played cymbals. They added emphasis to the music but hearing those giant brass plates crash into each other over and over could give somebody a serious headache.
Can you imagine if we walked around holding up two 20-inch brass cymbals crashing them together over and over?!! In our workspace, at the dinner table, at our next get-together with friends, or at our next worship service at church. Talk about clearing out a room! No one wants to be around all that noisy clanging for very long. It's interesting to me that what is often referred to as the love chapter in the Bible, 1 Corinthians 13, starts out with the admonition that no matter how eloquently we speak or how many languages we know and use, even if we spoke like the angels... without love at the heart of our communication... we are only making noise.
1 Corinthians 13:1-2 (TPT) tells us, "If I were to speak with eloquence in earth’s many languages, and in the heavenly tongues of angels, yet I didn’t express myself with love, my words would be reduced to the hollow sound of nothing more than a clanging cymbal." We can ask God to help us love well especially when we speak to each other. May our language reflect the love of our Savior today!
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