The way of love

[Faithful Son]

I read this in my Bible a few months or weeks ago. Some things happened recently and it made me think back what I needed to remember.

This is from The Message Bible. I know it's not everyones favorite translation, but I think it's really worth reading and meditating on.

1 Corinthians 13
The Way of Love

1 If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. 2If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing. 3-7If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love.

Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.
Love doesn't strut,
Doesn't have a swelled head,
Doesn't force itself on others,
Isn't always "me first,"
Doesn't fly off the handle,
Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn't revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end. 8-10Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.
11When I was an infant at my mother's breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.
12We don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won't be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We'll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!
13But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.

 

[ladylovesJesus]

Thank you brother for sharing that scripture I do like the message Bible for the way it speaks plain every day language. So refreshing and easy to read.

God bless

LLJ :rainbow: :rose:

 

[Faithful Son]

It's a pleasure my sister LadylovesJesus

You know, when I read this passage, I read the whole thing and it's truly like a knife piercing my heart. That's a good thing, because that means I must remember this.

Essentially, this passage is the explanation of the New Covenant, the new Commandments as Jesus gave them to us. Love God and love your neighbour as yourself.

If I can just get so far, to remember and live the commandments of Christ, I would be so well off.

God bless you sister