A
fresh set of eyes look at I Corinthians 13.
Take a moment and reflect with me.
Chapter
13~
Even
if I could speak French, Persian, and the ancient Syrian tongue and could
communicate with angels, but failed at love, I would be a noisy rumble of
irritating sounds.
If
I could explain black holes and predict the outcome of world politics, if I was
some spiritual guru and my very words could move mountains, yet failed to love
of what use would I be?
If
I were generous with my ‘stuff’ and gave everything away yet failed to love in
that very act of giving, what have I accomplished?
Love
lets an erratic driver cut in front of me.
Love holds open a door for a string of people at Walmart to enter ahead
of me. If a co-worker lands the big sale
love says “way to go”. Love does not
seek to jump to the head of the line, and it keeps its cool when feathers get
ruffled.
When
the down and out get downer and outer, love hurts with them. And when the down and out get lifted up to a
better place, love says “yeah”.
Love
protects, finds ways to trust, always hopes and offers hope, and always, always
endures.
Love
never stops springing forth. Prophetic
utterances will someday end; our voices will someday be stopped; knowledge will
vanish. Even now we know so little. We can’t comprehend the full truth.
Someday,
our lack will be complete, and our limited knowledge will disappear.
As
a child I knew few words. I understood
plastic trucks and homemade go-carts and kick the can. As a man I put away such simplistic
toys.
My
understanding was as if looking at myself in a cracked and cloudy mirror. I could only see fractions and bits and
pieces. Soon I shall see and be seen
with clarity and in proper light and I shall be known by my heavenly name and
with my true identity.
Three
main ingredients of life remain …
Faith
Hope
Love
And
by far, the most valuable - the chiefest ingredient for all of life … is love.
Love
Love
Love
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