Christian Love .......

A long time ago, a little boy was working for a blacksmith in his shop. The
blacksmith was a hard man, and he kept his shop very clean.
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One day the boy's boss gave him a large box of metal shavings. He told the boy
to carry the box to the forge, the great fireplace where the man melted and
banged out various metal tools and ornaments. The boy obeyed, but on the way, he
slipped on the cobblestone floor. He lost his grip on the box of metal shavings,
and the box flew out of his hands and spilled its contents on the stone floor.
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"Oh, no!" the boy said. "What am I going to do now?" He had to clean up the mess
quickly, or the blacksmith would be angry at him for his clumsiness. He fell to
his knees, and tried to pick up the sharp metal shavings by hand, but they cut
his fingers and made them bleed. He ran to get the broom, but then he realized
the broom would do him no good; many tiny pieces of shavings had fallen between
the bricks on the floor and could not be swept up with a broom.
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"What am I going to do?" he repeated.
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What would you do? You can't pick them up by hand. You can't sweep them up with
a broom. A vacuum cleaner would suck them up into a bag of dust, not into the
blacksmith's box. You would probably do the same thing the boy did. He searched
and searched until he finally found what he needed--a magnet! The magnet
attracted all the tiny shavings that lay on the bricks and between the bricks,
lifting them off the floor and into the blacksmith's box. The boy was saved
because he knew that a magnet would attract the metal.
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Do you know that true Christian love has a similar property? Oh, it won't lift
metal shavings off a blacksmith's floor. But it will attract loving attitudes
and actions like a magnet attracts metal.
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True Christian love will act as a magnet, bringing more and
more love into your life.

If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing (1 Corinthians-13:3)