Today, I really felt led to share this with you all. I hope I don’t sound too “preachy” as that is certainly not my intention. My husband and I have been through a lot during our life together. Some of it joyful, some of painful. Some of it easy, some of it difficult. Most of it battling, together, against our conflicts… but some of it battling each other, creating more conflict. During the most difficult time of my life, and some of you may speculate as to when that was, it was only prayer that got me through. Well, prayer and this particular chapter in God’s Good Book.
To all you spouses out there, wondering if you were cut out to be a spouse…or wondering if your partner was even created for marriage. To all the parents dealing with knuckle headed, unappreciative, back talking offspring…as well as all the kids, some grown now, wondering why they got stuck with the crappy parents. To all of us, everywhere, just barely making through the day to day, trying to figure out what this is all for…
IF I SPEAK IN TONGUES OF MEN AND OF ANGELS, BUT HAVE NOT LOVE, I AM ONLY A RESOUNDING GONG OR A CLANGING CYMBAL. 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 HAVE NOT LOVE, I AM NOTHING. IF I GIVE ALL I POSSESS TO THE POOR AND SURRENDER MY BODY TO THE FLAMES, BUT HAVE NOT LOVE, I GAIN NOTHING.
LOVE IS PATIENT, LOVE IS KIND. IT DOES NOT ENVY, IT DOES NOT BOAST, IT IS NOT PROUD. IT IS NOT RUDE, IT IS NOT SELF-SEEKING, IT IS NOT EASILY ANGERED, I KEEPS NO RECORD OF WRONGS. LOVE DOES NOT DELIGHT IN EVIL BUT REJOICES WITH THE TRUTH. IT ALWAYS PROTECTS, ALWAYS TRUSTS, ALWAYS HOPES, ALWAYS PERSEVERES.
LOVE NEVER FAILS. BUT WHERE THERE ARE PROPHECIES, THEY WILL CEASE; WHERE THERE ARE TONGUES, THEY WILL BE STILLED; WHERE THERE IS THERE IS KNOWLEDGE, IT WILL PASS AWAY. FOR WE KNOW IN PART AND WE PROPHECY IN PART, BUT WHEN PERFECTION COMES, THE IMPERFECT DISAPPEARS. 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 CHILDISH WAYS BEHIND ME. NOW WE SEE BUT A POOR 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.
AND NOW THESE THREE REMAIN: FAITH, HOPE AND LOVE. BUT THE GREATEST OF THESE IS LOVE.
Amen to this!!! We are to LEAVE CLEAVE & BECOME ONE!!!