Daily Worship

Forgive my absurd obsession

Albert Bogle January 15, 2016 0 0

1 Corinthians 13

If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Lord,

I could spend my whole life 
Seeking and searching
searching for the right deal
Looking for the right match
Seeking the correct answer
Searching out the perfect Church
Looking for the exact biblical interpretation
I could do all the searching
But what good would it do me
If I never settle 
If I never take a risk
If I never admit my own weakness

Lord,
Teach me how to trust You
Show me how to live with loose ends
Grant me the courage
To keep searching 
To keep striving  
To keep believing
To keep receiving your grace
Knowing that I will never 
be the perfect disciple
For I can only see through a glass darkly.

So let faith hope and love abide
And let the greatest of these become my master