Is Orthodoxy Your Christ?

Is orthodoxy your Christ?

Sometimes we can forget why it is we do what we have done for so long.

There is a story of a man who, like many, fell in love with a gal he met his Sophomore year of college. They dated, got married, had children, even adopted one. But over time the man slowly stopped surprising his wife with a flower or note or wink, that 'something' in him for her began to fade. He was the same man who provided for his family, played with his children and tenderly cared for them, who made his wife, in some ways, still feel special... but something had faded which once was there. He would never consider divorce or separation, for he saw nothing in the relationship that was off. He would always be the husband at his wife's side, the father there with wisdom and grace for his children. But the thing which he lacked was this: he worried so much about being a good father and husband that he stopped loving his wife and children. He would not say it, his family would not say it, but it was the reality. His desire was not to set-out to emotionally schism from his family, it just sort of happened. He had the mechanics of one who outwardly displayed love, but he was more of a robot than a man; he DID more than he was compelled.

In the book of Revelation, second chapter, Jesus charges the church at Ephesus with 'abandoning the love you had at first.'

This was probably shocking to many in the churches at that time. You mean us? We have protected the truth, orthodoxy, right thinking about you? We have undergone persecution for our views which are correct. We fought against the heresy of the Nicolaitans! How can you say we are lacking love?

Just like the man, Ephesus, full of good and truth, was without love.

Facts do not give life. Love gives life. We always need true truth, but truth which forsakes its source, God, is a deadly poison for it has all the workings of love, yet without the life.