]Lately i have been studying ... and well also playing single player rpg games at home :) (taking an advice from my little cousin =p). In games like this, you will stumble upon cool equipments like Cloaks of Fortification , Boots of Speed, Sword of Enlightenment, Nameless Light ( my favourite Bastard Sword with Great Enchantments against evil fowls) and bla bla bla.
Isn't it interersting if we have such equipments on Earth? Especially something like the boots of gospel, the shield of Faith, breastplate of Righteousness.. and something just as extraodinary.. the cloak of Love.
I read an interesting abstract (again!) from Max's - a love worth giving.
1 Corinthians 13:6-7
We hide. He seeks.
We bring sin. He brings a sacrifice.
We try fig leaves. He brings the robe of righteousness.
And we are left to sing the song of the prophet:
"He has covered me with clothes of salvation and wrapped me with a coat of goodness, like a bridegroom dressed for his wedding like a bride dressed in jewels"
(Isa. 61:10)
In the 1930s, Joe Wise was a young, single resident at Cook Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas. Patients called him the "doctor with the rose." He made them smile by pinning a flower from bedside bouquets on his lab coat.
Madge, however, needed more than a smile. The automobile accident had left her leg nearly severed at the knee. She was young, beautiful, and very much afraid. When Joe spotted her in the ER, he did something he'd never done before.
Joe took his lab coat, bejeweled with the rose, and placed it gently over the young woman. As she was wheeled into the operating room, the coat was removed, but she asked to keep the flower. When she awoke from surgery, it was still in her hand. When I tell you that Madge never forgot Joe, you won't be surprised. When I tell you how she thanked him, you very well may be.
As Madge recovered, he paid visits to her room. Many visits. When he learned that she was engaged, he hung a "No Visitors" sign on her door so her fiance couldn't enter. Madge didn't object. Her diary reads, "I hope that handsome young doctor comes by to visit today." He did, that day, and many others, always with a rose. One a day until she was dismissed from the hospital.
And Madge never forgot. Her response? She gave him a rose in return. The next day she gave another. Then the next, another. As they started dating, the daily roses still came. When they married, she disn't stop giving them. Madge convinced the Colonial Golf Course across the street from her house to plant roses so she could guive the doctor his daily gift. For nearly forty years, every day - a rose. Their younger son, Harold, says he can't rememer a time when there wasn't a glass in the refrigerator contatining roses from his dad.
A cloak of love. A rose of gratitude.
Have you been given the first? Then take time to give the second.
Its a pretty nice love story from the book. But more to that, it has also taught me another nature of agape (love). Love is not proud. It does not keep records of wrongdoing, but always rejoices with the truth. and love .. it bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things and endures all things. Apart from this, it protects us.
The secret of staying loved is learning to give and receive it. Receive it from the source of it all. and giving it to the ones around us :)
Better than any Cloak of Protection [ with +5 enchantments :) ], or helmet of fortification in the game.. once worn, it changes your attitude towards others and your living of life. :)
Know of anyone who needs a cloak of love?
practical exam tmr! yay. dun wanna screw it tis time.. :)
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