True Love - Romans 12:9-21
It was long before “match,” “eharmony,” “christiansingles” “dot coms”; or apps like “tinder” and “Plenty of Fish.” Every generation has had its method or methods for determining the perfect match…all the way back to the times of the village matchmaker. When I was in elementary, middle, and high school, we had a very scientific way of determining whether a person we were interested in would be our perfect match. We knew exactly how to determine if it would be true love. It was a simple mathematical test. You would take each person’s full name and write them each on a piece of paper. Then below the names you would make four columns. The first would have the letters “T-R-U-E” in descending order. The third would have the letters “L-O-V-E” in a similar fashion. Then you would count up numbers of “T’s” in both names and write it down in the second column beside the “T,” the number of “R’s,” write it beside the “R,” and so on. Then you wo...