We recently stayed at Shakertown Village near Harrodsburg, Ky. Every home and every room there has trim work around with wooden pegs screwed in every couple inches. There aren't any closets, just pegs for your clothes, coats and hats to hang. My husband, Kevin, who would like to ush
er back the days when men wore hats, had many places to hang his hat while there. At home we have three beautiful hooks by our front door where Kevin can hang his hat. It is comforting to have a place to hang your hat and a place to call home. "Home, is where the heart is," they say, and home is where love is. Love is not automatic.. It must grow in our hearts and we must grow in love. Jesus said in Matthew 22:37-40, " ... Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."When I read these verses this morning, I thought of those pegs at Shakertown and our hook for hats at home. The verse states that all the law and prophets hang on one thing...love. My feminine mind automatically sees a great big heart with one of those pegs drilled in the center and suspended from that are the Ten commandments and the Prophetical Scrolls. That is a nice way to think of it, but the love that holds us is not as not as pretty. It is a picture of an Old Rugged Cross where our LORD Jesus suffered and died. He was nailed by three great spikes to that tree for me. He was the ultimate Love sacrifice and payment for the sins of the world. It was on him my sins were laid. He bore my burden of sin. He carried all my shame. Praise His name! He died, was buried and rose again! He is coming again to take us ,who choose to accept His love, to His home he is preparing for us. That Love is, ...A place where you can hang your hat!
er back the days when men wore hats, had many places to hang his hat while there. At home we have three beautiful hooks by our front door where Kevin can hang his hat. It is comforting to have a place to hang your hat and a place to call home. "Home, is where the heart is," they say, and home is where love is. Love is not automatic.. It must grow in our hearts and we must grow in love. Jesus said in Matthew 22:37-40, " ... Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets."When I read these verses this morning, I thought of those pegs at Shakertown and our hook for hats at home. The verse states that all the law and prophets hang on one thing...love. My feminine mind automatically sees a great big heart with one of those pegs drilled in the center and suspended from that are the Ten commandments and the Prophetical Scrolls. That is a nice way to think of it, but the love that holds us is not as not as pretty. It is a picture of an Old Rugged Cross where our LORD Jesus suffered and died. He was nailed by three great spikes to that tree for me. He was the ultimate Love sacrifice and payment for the sins of the world. It was on him my sins were laid. He bore my burden of sin. He carried all my shame. Praise His name! He died, was buried and rose again! He is coming again to take us ,who choose to accept His love, to His home he is preparing for us. That Love is, ...A place where you can hang your hat!
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