Contemplative Bible Reading

Colossians 3:14 (New English Translation)

And to all these virtues add love, which is the perfect bond.

Love is the perfect, complete, wholly satisfactory bond. Love glues everything else together. All the good, great, wonderful things I may do as a Christian are just that:

a bunch of nice things floating around out there somewhere

Without love bonding them together, well, a waste a time.

And love is greater than bonding good acts together. Love, as a good glue will do, fills in the cracks. I have a lot of cracks in my life, spaces between the good I may allow the Spirit of God to do through me. Love fills those cracks and makes be a complete being who is living for God.

Thank you God for the gift of love.