"If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal."
I've been working hard this semester to clean up my life and really put a lot of effort into living a more Christ-like walk. It has been really hard though, some weeks I would do well, and then others I would slip even further. I drove home very frustrated tonight, feeling like I was caught in a cycle. But I had the realization that I have been trying to do this all as a works based effort. The greatest commandment is to love God and then to love others. Really though, I have been loving myself. Thinking that if I do good, I will feel better about myself or perhaps God will reward me.
Good works are important of course, but as Paul says, without love they mean nothing. I am not sure how suddenly start loving like I should, but I have a goal now.
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