The Goal of Love #540

What's more important a warm heart or a straight head? What do you think about a middle road that excludes neither but joins both? Is this possible?

Here is what the Bible says. "The goal of our instruction is love" (1 Timothy 1:5). We associate instruction with facts and arguments. We learn facts and argue with them. We connect love with pleasant feelings. If it feels good, do it. We often divide the two. Our instruction becomes contentious. Love verges on sloppy sentimentalism.

The Bible therefore links instruction and love. The purpose, goal, and end of biblical instruction is love. Biblical instruction is not an end in itself. It cannot be dispassionate. Love does not stand alone either. It cannot be uninformed. The goal is actually informed passion.

The goal of biblical instruction in marriage is not stifling legalism. The goal of instruction is an informed passion for God and between husband and wife. The end of our instruction for family life is not burdensome obedience. The goal of our instruction is the informed love of parents for children, of children for parents, and of children for siblings. The purpose toward which biblical instruction concerning the workplace drives us is also informed passion for work under God. It is an informed passion for service and for servant leadership. "The goal of our instruction is love."

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