Yesterday our youth leader, Amanda Mackie was our speaker. Below is an introduction to her sermon. I pray that we will be moved by God’s love to love Him with all of our heart, mind and soul, that we will choose love above all else and that we will come to know that who God has created us to be is far greater than anything we may feel He has called us to do.
1 Corinthians 13:1-3 “If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.”
God’s calling for each of us isn’t to do something, but to be something. So the question that I keep asking myself and want us all to ask ourselves today is who God is calling you to be rather than what you are supposed to do… Love makes our actions and gifts useful. Our primary calling is not about our gifts or what we are suppose to do, but our calling is to be something and that something is to be like God- to be christlike, to be people who are motivated by God’s love and nothing else. God’s love for us goes beyond anything we have known or will ever know. The only way to define real true love is by looking at God because He is love and He wants to overwhelm us with how much He loves us.