Tina Turner had a song that went to the top of the music charts. People sang it around the world. It was way near the top of the charts in Norway, Spain, Germany, the United States, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands, Canada, Ireland and many more countries according to sources. It was Song of the Year and Record of the year. To Tina's credit; it's reported that she hated the song. I distinctly remember going to see the movie with my friend Carmen. This was quite a while back. She got mad at the "Ike" in the movie played by Larry Fishburne. She began to yell at him and tell him off right there in the previously quiet movie theatre. I felt embarrassed. Neither of us realized that we were getting an erroneous message. We didn't know that Jesus had given us a command to love. Yeah, years ago we heard "Love your neighbor as yourself." but we had sort of forgotten. We both grew up in churches that didn't teach the Word of God. We were solid believers but we had drifted away from the close walk of our childhood. The movie was presented that there was no way that Tina could ever for give Ike. Everyone everywhere knew the storyline; which in a way "mimics remnants" of some things that have happened with more recent headlines. At any rate, "LOVE" has everything to do with it. It's the first thing that must be considered. It's the important thing.
Here's a warning:
You have to forgive the people who hurt you. Let your light shine in their lives. Don't allow bitterness or unforgiveness to take root.
Don't take the people around you for granted. Your family members, your friends, your neighbors, your church family including ministers and volunteers. Tell them that you love them and mean it. Encourage them, support them. Take time to reflect on what's important in your life. If you value those around you; they will value you.
Look at First Corinthians Chapter Thirteen from the Message Bible interpretation and think on what it says. You'll be Blessed.
1 Corinthians 13
The Way of Love
1 If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. 2If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing. 3-7If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love.
Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.
Love doesn't strut,
Doesn't have a swelled head,
Doesn't force itself on others,
Isn't always "me first,"
Doesn't fly off the handle,
Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn't revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.
8-10Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.
11When I was an infant at my mother's breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.
12We don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won't be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We'll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!
13But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.
It was just a song; but it left its' mark on many people (especially women). I am sure that Tina was moved at some point to forgive Ike.
What's Love Got to do with it?
Everything that's all.
For [if we are] in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith activated and energized and expressed and working through love. Gal 5:6
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