Issue 1647 – A Scream in the Night – January 15, 2025

One morning recently, I was having a fitful sleep. Early in the morning, I had a rude awakening as I heard the scream of a train whistle cut through the night like the very pits of hell had opened, and you could hear the anguish of those suffering.
The train doesn’t run particularly close to us, and though we sometimes hear it, it is seldom loud, so the sound of sirens is nothing new. I’m so used to them that I’ve, by and large, tuned them out.
I don’t know if it was the atmospheric conditions or something else, but the train seemed abnormally loud. The whistle was painful and mournful.
That morning in my study, I was led to the second epistle to the Corinthians.
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.1 Corinthians 13:1-3
I could hear the screaming train whistle instead of a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. I could paraphrase that to fit my experience that night: “If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only the rude sound of a screaming train in the night.”
Do we have the love that accompanies our faith walk? It’s a significant evidence of being born again. Without it we’re just making noise.
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13:34-35
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things, there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23
Until next time, I pray that the love of Jesus flows through you and washes over all those around you. Instead of being a siren screaming in the night, may you be a blessing to all you encounter.
Be blessed
Hallelu Yah / Praise God
Kevin
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