The greatest teaching on love is found in 1 Corinthians 13 and one of the most challenging scriptures in the bible. Every now and then I like to take a piece of scripture and write my own paraphrase… I love the fact that real change is a decision of the heart and if I attempt to change everything else but my heart then I never really change at all. My challenge to myself is to change myself from the inside and that is an ongoing feat…
If I am brilliant in eloquence, can preach amazing messages and yet don’t have love then my words and cleverness amount to zero… I am considered to be nothing more than screechy noise. If I speak God's Word with revelation, expanding all his mysteries having great clarity, and if I have faith that moves mountains but I don't love, I'm nothing....
Love is uncomplaining and giving. Love is not resentful… It is unpretentious, meek, humble and unaffected. It does not demand its own way. It is not bad-tempered, envious and it keeps no record of being offended. It always shelters, always trusts, always believes the best and always persists.
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