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Love

Today, I feel the Lord is leading me to provide some scripture.  This is a very classic set of verses on love.  Please read them slowly and thoughtfully.  Remember that Christ embodies love.  If we are to become more Christ like, then we must embody love too.

I Corinthians
Chapter 13: 1-13

" If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.  And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.  If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.  Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude.  It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.  Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.  Love never ends.  As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.  For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.  When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child.  When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.  For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face.  Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.  So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love." 

This is the standard by which we are to treat people.  You should be judging your behavior, your comments, and your actions by this passage.  It may take practice, but keep trying.  Some people don't make it easy to love them.  Some do not personify this passage themselves.  I myself don't always make it easy to love me nor do I project a loving attitude. You may think why should I treat them better than they treat me.  You should because that is what Jesus would do.  The only person you are going to be judged against in the end is you.

In His service
Mally

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