Daily Worship

Love never fails

October 07, 2015 0 0

1Corinthians 13

13 If I speak in the tongues 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, 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.

Oh Lord! How amazing is your grace and how fulfilling are your ways?
In this world of standing upon people I feel the joy of helping people.
Too often the pace of life makes people rude but you make me thankful.
I know believing is Jesus is an uphill battle at times but it is the way to live.
The Bible calls your love “extravagant” and that it most certainly is.
The Bible speaks about loving the “other, stranger, alien and broken.”
What fulfilment there is in saying “no” to me and “yes” to you. 
When I focus on that truth I’ve no time to pick away at my small complaints.
I live well in the land of grace and eat heartily the fruit of your spirit. 
May my obedient heart always rejoice in this disciplined life of faith.  Amen