A Certain Sound

Danny played the trumpet in middle school so a couple of concerts were part of each school year.  Like other families, we arrived equipped with camera, eager to spot our own little musician. Performances of first-year band students were, shall I say, clang-and-bang. Dennis & Dustin were toddlers so they got away with covering their ears!

 

Love has a certain language. Most noteworthy, however, it is a dialect unique to Christians.  Paul wrote in 1 Corinthians 13:1, "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal."  In other words, speaking with eloquence means nothing if spoken apart from love.  Our words often sound much like the clanging and banging of first-year band students.  Honestly, how pleasant is that?  Seriously, how effective is that?  Verse 8 says, "love never fails," which brings resolve for the Believer to abandon clang-and-bang language that angers, hurts, and dishonors God.  The dialect of genuine love instead resounds Truth with tender mercy and uncommon grace, and God uses the pleasantness of its sound to change lives.  It is … the way of Love.