No One Thought Much Of Our Love
by
Dr. Gale A. Ragan-Reid (10/15/2013)
“That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height: And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us, Unto him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus throughout all ages, world without end. Amen” (Ephesians 3:17-21, King James Version [the great love of Christ]).
Greetings in the Holy Name of Christ Jesus,
How about that faith! Remember Luther Ingram (1979) sang the old Rhythm and Blues (R&B) soul song:
“If loving you is wrong...
I don't want to be right
If being right means living without you
I'd rather live wrong than right
My Mama and Daddy say "It's a shame..."
"It's a downright disgrace"
But as long as I've got you by my side
I don't care what my people say
My friends tell me there's no future
In lovin' a married man
If I can't see you when I want...
I'll see you when I can
Bridge:
If loving you is wrong, I don't want to be right
If loving you is wrong, I don't want to be right
Am I wrong to fall
So deeply in love with you...
Knowing you've got a wife and two little children
Depending on you too
Am I wrong to hunger
For the gentleness of your touch...
Knowing you've got someone else at home
Who needs you just as much
Chorus:
Am I wrong to give my love
To a married man?
Am I wrong for trying to hold on
To the best thing I've ever had?
If loving you is wrong...I don't want to be right
If loving you is wrong...I don't want to be right
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Repeat Chorus:
I don't want to be right...if it means living without you
I don't want to be right...if it means sleeping alone at night
I don't want to be right
If loving you is wrong...I don't want to be right
If loving you is wrong...No, I don't want to be right”
(Country # 1 / Chart Debut 2/17/79 / 1979 MCA Records, Inc.)
Brothers and sisters, sometimes the songs in the world outside of faith are clues to guide you to the faith of Christ Jesus. Sometimes, the spirit of those working in the world, although outside of faith, might be filled with the Holy Ghost spirit and you can hear it in song. Obviously, the gift of song moves you and soothes you to draw nigh to Christ Jesus with subtle truths of how living in the world outside of Christ misuses you. Who are you married to and I am not talking about who you are living with?
I am asking you, who are you married to? If, you say you are married to Christ Jesus, then you deny the man you are with and if you say you are married to the man you live with then you short change Christ Jesus. If you say you are with the man who you do not live with then again you give Christ Jesus a part of your love. If you give Christ Jesus a part of your love then is your love spiritual? Is the man you are with, spiritual?
Let Christ use you to do God's business and run your course; falling in line to press on to the mark of the high calling. One reflection came upon me about my friend and that thought was, no one thought much of our love. What we shared were a lot of little things? There were a whole lot of little moments but they all added up. Yes, all the little things added up.
Pray with me. Dear God, “Forever hold me in your tender loving embrace and forget me not. Let me feel your love and let me know your love always.” During your faith walk was your love for Christ questioned by others? Did some of the bible thumping believers deny that Christ abides in you? Did you look in the mirror and question yourself because of their unbelief in your faith and denial of the spirit of Christ Jesus that dwells in you?
Did the naysayers deny the wonder that manifested from your works, of Christ Jesus? In relationships, finding truth is what we all searched for in our unspoken quests--- that was why you started out searching in the flesh, however, if you could just get beyond your flesh, then, enter into the spirit, there in the spirit was where you discovered the truth of love. You see, no one thought much of my love and no one thought much of my relationship. Is Christ Jesus your friend? My relationship with my friend was a simple relationship, free of the trappings of life.
What we shared were stolen moments from our regular routine of planned activities. Please, try to understand me, I mean we did not see each other everyday so that I might feel that I was as much a part of the everyday schedule as the postal carrier. We know the postal carrier comes everyday. Let me explain, we shared borrowed time and sacrificed that time together. We ran away from what life desperately cried out for us to do.
Simply speaking, we stole away in moments of our time until we never saw each other again. And, our last moments of time were spent in hope praying that one day life would afford us another day to see each other again but life failed to give us that one last opportunity, for we already spent our last time together but we did not know it at the time. Are you wasting your time away from Christ Jesus? Do you treasure your faith? Do you love Christ Jesus?
Sometimes it takes a whole lot of folks to bring you a message- that's why it took five folks to write, If loving you is wrong I don't want to do right. The writers were: Homer Banks, Carl Mitchell Hampton, Raymond E. Jackson, Lawrence Krsone Parker and Sonya Spikes. Those folks questioned
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feelings they buried deep inside themselves to bring you a message of marriage. Christ told the Sadducees about marriage and resurrection for they wanted to know, next to whom, should they lay, when buried, dead cold in the grave.
Christ said, “...The children of this world marry, and are given in marriage: But they which shall be accounted worthy to obtain that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage: Neither can they die anymore: for they are equal unto the angels; and are the children of God, being the children of the resurrection” (St. Luke 20:34-36 [Marriage and resurrection to Christ Jesus]). My friend died. We spent our last time together. We talked on the phone the last time. We reminisced our years the last time. Are you, too, in reflection, going back in time to ponder your thoughts about your relationship? Let us ponder our thoughts about Christ Jesus in Christ Jesus.
Amen. May the spirit of our Lord and Saviour Christ Jesus be with us all, always.
