Like, love, staples and superglue

Today: 2 Chronicles 2-5


A few months ago, I was reading a magazine ad that caught my attention (yeah, I know it's a little weird--I actually read ads). Here's what it said:

Don't just like.

LIKE is watered-down love.

Like is mediocre.

Like is the wishy-washy emotion of the content.

Athletes don't do it for the like of the sport.

Artists don't suffer for the like of art.

There is no I like NY T-shirt.

And Romeo didn't just like Juliet.



LOVE. Now that's powerful stuff.

Love changes things.

Upsets things.

Conquers things.

Love is at the root of everything good that has ever happened and ever will happen.


LOVE what you do.*

I LOVE this ad because I think that most of the time, we live in the Land of Like (hello, Facebook button!). What separates love and like? Passion that leads to undying commitment. Like is a staple easily removed; love is superglue. Scratch that--love is fire that welds things together and leaves them permanently altered.

In today's passage, I loved this declaration about God's kind of love:

The choir and trumpets made one voice of praise and thanks to God—

orchestra and choir in perfect harmony singing and playing praise to God:

Yes! God is good!

His loyal love goes on forever!

What and who do you really LOVE? What's the evidence of your loyal, fire-fused love?

*Credit: This was an ad for BlackBerry. Hopefully, that does not lessen the impact of its words for iPhone lovers. Note that the author is Switzerland-style impartial in the great BlackBerry versus iPhone debate. :)

Tomorrow: 2 Chronicles 6-8