The strongest force is the world surely is love. It knows no boundaries. It comes to the most beautiful and the plainest. To the handicapped and even to the blind. And in its purest stage, it overlooks every fault.

But it has its enemies. They include jealousy, envy and lust. One of my “Thorntonisms” is that “What used to be those three little words, have become three little letters. Too many equate “love” with “sex,” which probably explains how some movie stars’ marriages last for a weekend.

The famous have a strike against them…everywhere they turn, someone wants to buy them a drink, or do something…anything…to curry their favor, and after a period of time, the drinks, drugs and female companionship become so common that they look elsewhere for a thrill, and too often, in the end, it kills them. Personally, I think that Elvis was born to sing Gospel, but idolization (is that a word?) and the Colonel couldn’t, or wouldn’t allow him to go the less-golden path.

First John 4:16 says “God is love.” If that fact could be improved, it would say, “God is perfect love.” With God, the word has no hidden meanings; no ties to jealousy or lust. It’s the love one would die for. And that brings us around to “Christ,” doesn’t it. Out of love, He died for us, so out of love, we live for Him. If you haven’t given your life to Him, this is a good time, and get the perfect love…the one where wrinkles of age, or any of the things we humans call “beauty” have no place. God and Christ play no favorites. You’re as welcome to a place in Heaven as Abraham or Lazarus.

Think about it.