MUSIC BLOG 06-26-2025
MUSIC BLOG
06-26-2025
LOVE MAKES THE WORLD GO ‘ROUND
Yesterday, driving home from work I was listening to the classic radio broadcasts that I love and while I was listening to a program where a distinguished English professor from UCLA was going to school the audience (me) about the importance of love and what love is from a totally secular perspective. The broadcast started off innocently, but I could tell from the tone that soon it would soon get out of the comfort zone of the speaker, or my comfort zone as a listener. He began the broadcast with words to this effect, “If love makes the world go ‘round, as the song says, then it is definitely something that each of us must make ourselves aware. We are in a society where the sharing of knowledge, whether in nuclear science or raising of children, must be shared and absorbed.” This statement was his premise and his studies as an English teacher made him the expert of the topic.
While I do believe that Love Makes the World Go ‘round, I don’t necessarily believe it to be the love of a man and woman. Love makes the world go ‘round because love is the motivator of all human action, or the opposite of love, as hate. Love causes parents to sacrifice for their children. Love causes people to work tirelessly for a goal that is not merely money. Love conquers all in regard to hate, apathy, and loneliness. Love challenges us to become better than we are and the absence of love can lead us to ruin and despair.
According to the Bible, the world was created with love. God loved the world so much that He gave. God started loving man before man was created. Without love we are nothing. Without the assurance of God’s love we are paralyzed. Paul said the Love of God compels me. Throughout scripture God has been the initiator in the love relationship with mankind. The bible clearly states that if God had not done so, mankind would never have sought out God. God alone, calls out to us, God seeks us, God wills fruit and action from our lives where there would be nothing but hurt, disappointment, and sorrow.
Jesus told His disciples in John 15:16, 19 “You did not choose me, but I chose you. I appointed you. However, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of it the world hates you”. The Old testament says the same thing. Jeremiah said in 31:3, “The Lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore, I have continued to extend faithful love to you”. And in Hosea 11:4, “I led them with human cords, with ropes of love. To them I was like one who eases the yoke from their jaws: I bend down to give them food.”
When we are utterly convinced of someone’s love we will do whatever it takes to maintain that relationship. It is no different with God. I would venture a guess that many if not most Christians are unsure or doubtful that God truly loves them. Without that assurance we lack the proper motivation to truly maintain a love relationship that God requires and that we desperately desire.
The bible says that if we seek Him with all our hearts, we shall surely find Him. If you don’t feel as close to God today as you have in the past, maybe it’s not because God moved. Let this blog to a motivation for each of us to seek God, with all our heart.
God is at work. Let’s prepare ourselves to join Him in whatever He is doing. We start with repairing our relationship or beginning that relationship
Blessings,
Marty