Love...the ultimate...
1 Corinthians 13:1-8; 13
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.
And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Encouraging Words...
I have always read this passage as a charter for how I am to live my life...and rightly so. It is so clear and concise on how I must do everything from the position of love. But today as I was writing this out I began to read this as a definition, or image, of God and how He loves us. Try it, go back and read this from the perspective of a written icon of God and see just how much He loves His creation.
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