I’d like you to imagine something with me.  You’re making a documentary and head out to film a keynote interviewee.  It has taken a few months to secure this interview, and you are pumped to finally meet this person.  You drive for over an hour, go through security, and enter the building.  The interview goes well and everything is caught on camera…it’s a good day!  You return home and switch on the camera to replay the footage, only to discover that the interview is gone.  The memory card is blank and the footage you just celebrated over is non-existent.

If you hadn’t guessed already, this happened to me last week.  This may not seem like a big deal to those who have never made a film, but it’s a tough pill to swallow.  Thoughts have been storming through my head these last few days: how do I tell our interviewee that we lost the footage?  Do I dare ask him for a second interview?  Why are we even making a film? God why did you let this happen?

1 Corinthians 13 says this:

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.  If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secrets plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing.  If I gave everything to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it, but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.

Living life without loving people is like making a documentary with no footage.  It is worth nothing.  Fortunately for us, a good friend spent the week trying to recover our lost interview and found it.  But how many people get to the end of their lives, only to find that all of their accomplishments were completely worthless because they did not live a life of love?  That is way more tragic than lost footage. 

How are we loving people this week?

Michelle