What the world needs now is love, sweet love ?❤️
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The world seems to be going crazy, but God has an antidote: love. It may sound a little trite, but it’s so true.
As I prepared for this new series on loving others, I remembered a song by Jackie DeShannon titled “What the World Needs Now is Love.” It goes like this:
“What the world needs now is love, sweet love.
It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of.
What the world needs now is love, sweet love.
No, not just for some but for everyone.”
This song is needed in our society more than ever. Gone are the days of peaceful protest with icons like Gandhi, Dr. King, and so many others who spoke up against injustice and even tyranny without the use of violence.
How do you feel about the violence in so many of our cities and the lack of civility?
The Bible has a lot to say about the importance of love: “If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.” (1 Corinthians 13:1, NIV)
As a teenager growing up in the seventies, I remember the protests against the Vietnam War. I still feel badly about our servicemen who were lost in that war and their families. I also feel horrible for the animosity our veterans experienced on their return home. I’m sure they didn’t pick this fight, but they served faithfully. In my mind, they deserve love, honor, and respect.
Jesus was hated and maligned for His words, life, and standards, yet He admonished us, “‘But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.’” (Matthew 5:44, NIV). Love drove Jesus to give, heal, and love. But love also forced Him to confront the religious hypocrites and societal injustice.
Can you choose to love others like Jesus does? Can you be different from our society of haters, thugs, and rageaholics?
Would you pray with me? “Dear Jesus, please help me love people who are different from me. Help me love the unlovable, the different, the lost, and even my enemies. I’m choosing love because You chose me. Amen.”
When you choose love, you can change your world. Because you’re a miracle.
Wrong message spoken with what is posted.
I experienced the same
Same. Wrong message.
Reading this message today, I tried to understand where you were coming from but something about it still felt off.
I agree that love is the way forward, but I also think it is important to understand why so much violence has come about and you don’t really touch on this.
The violence you speak of didn’t come about overnight. It is a consequence of centuries of marginalisation, brutality, hate and the constant refusal to listen to the “peaceful protests” that you remember. Even now, people still aren’t ready or willing to listen.
It’s therefore unsurprising that while an advocate for peace, Dr. King also acknowledged that “a riot is the language of the unheard.”
To love, for me, also means to be willing to listen. Much of the violence we are seeing is a reaction to the violence people have received.
It doesn’t feel right to say we should love others while being quick to dismiss people’s hurt and pain by labelling them “haters, thugs and rageholics.” We need to try to understand why they feel that way, why some are turning to violence and how we as individuals or a collective may even be contributing to this.
Not the same message as what is written.
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Wrong message Audio!!!!
wrong message
This is my first time commenting here. Yes the audio message doesn’t match but I believe it also reminds us of what listening to God is: as Jennifer mentioned earlier it is important to listen to those hurting, to me that’s the best way to love them.
We think we listen but do we really hear? The message accidentally posted here tells us to spend time in prayer, learn to have an intimate relationship with God. It’s not easy. It also means learn to listen to and see other people’s pain in this world where we lack the patience to listen.
I praise God every day for the love He has put in my heart and I pray we all experience and share this love with others around us in the name of Jesus Christ Amen
Oh yes the message was posted wrongly but I believe God has a purpose for everything. We don’t know why this happened but only God knows. But when we read the Bible the word of the Lord is talking about love and this is what we are lacking. Jesus in his teachings emphasised about love which is also the first commandment. Love your God, Love your neighbor. Love, Love, Love, Love is all Jesus talked about.But do we follow Jesus and do what he said????? indeed what the world needs now is Love.
Same text as the audio☺