“Best Of” Best Quotes

“Love is not static; it cannot but pour itself outward.”

There is plenty in Harold Best’s Unceasing Worship that makes me scratch my chin and think, or put a place holder in the book and stare off into space, and the quote above is worth some pondering.

The idea that love is an active thing can be found throughout scripture.”For God so loved the world that He gave His one and only son.” (John 3:16), or when Jesus reminds his followers that if they truly love him they should do what he says. Love does not sit by on the sidelines, just as Jesus did not sit by on the sidelines. He stepped boldly into human history and paid a great price. Biblical love is not theoretical, but tried, tested, and true.

But, as Best points out throughout his book, this can go two ways. We become more like what we love.if Christ, than more like Christ, if the world than more like the world, but not both. Love compels us to be more than what we are, but the love described in the Bible is so much different than the “love” the world offers which seems to be more about feelings than action.

Reading Unceasing Worship was a good checkup to see where and what I pour myself in to, and thus to see what I love. A lot of what I saw, and continue to see, is disheartening, but I hope it is God’s purpose to put those kinds of reality checks in my life so that I see my fault and come to love Him more. It also makes me realize, once again, how far I am from being a perfect worshipper, and how much I need to cling to Jesus who was (and is) exactly that. And that’s just on page 22.