Daily Worship

Love over anger

October 08, 2015 0 0

1 Corinthians 13

The Gift of Love

13 If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 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 do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. 9 For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; 10 but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. 13 And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

I thank you Father, that you are someone who chooses love over anger.
Too often I and all your people are too quick to bring the colour “red” into our lives.
My conversations easily become strained and then become drained of grace.
I don’t know why I end up saying what I say? 
I don’t really have an excuse.
Maybe it’s because I squeeze your calming voice out of my busy life?
Regardless - I don’t want to let you down anymore.
I want to be a peacemaker, a peace bringer and peace person.
In Church, out of Church and everywhere.
Help me to un-paint the town red and re-paint it with the colour peace. Amen