What The World Needs Now...

Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
—1 John 4:11

A great verse that I think all of us need to remember at times.  Since we are all loved by the Creator Of The Universe, each and every one of us, doesn't it stand to reason that we should be able to love each other?  After all, we were ALL created by Him. If someone we don't particularly want to love is good enough to be loved by God, and we choose not to show them love ourselves, aren't we basically saying "God...you go ahead and love that person but they aren't good enough for ME to love."

Every day on my way to work, I am reminded of this as I approach the I475 / I75 exchange where traffic backs up for over a mile.  It's amazing to see how RUDE people to each other when the traffic heavy.  Fingers go flying.  Horns blare.  Dirty looks become common.  For what?  Just to get 1 car ahead in a traffic jam?  Really?

You see it everywhere, really...not just heavy traffic.  The grocery store.  The malls. Restaurants (especially fast food).   There is no escaping it.  There was a song that was popular when I was little by Burt Bacharach called "What The World Needs Now Is Love."  You could almost consider that song prophetic when he wrote it in 1965. I wonder what he thinks now?

I'm not saying we have to have relationships with everybody.  I'm also not saying that we have to LIKE everybody.  There is a HUGE difference between like and love.  A lot of people have it in their heads that love is a greater form of like, but it's just not true.  You don't have to like someone you show love to.


What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It's the only thing that there's just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love,
No not just for some but for everyone.

What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It's the only thing that there's just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love,
No, not just for some but for everyone.

Lord, we don't need another mountain,
There are mountains and hillsides enough to climb
There are oceans and rivers enough to cross,
Enough to last till the end of time.

What the world needs now is love, sweet love
No, not just for some but for everyone.

What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It's the only thing that there's just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love,
No, not just for some, oh, but just for
Every, every, everyone.

That is all.
Gregg