Love

Sometimes, God reminds you of a certain passage and highlights it throughout the day through various people and means. Today, God reminded me of this passage:

1 Corinthians 13
Love
1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If 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. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

8Love 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. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When 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. 12Now 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.

13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

I read it over and over again. It kept on coming up and I now want to meditate on it more and more. I want to base everything in my life with this kind of love. This is the kind of love that God commands of us but before that, this is the kind of love that God has revealed to us through Christ. I desire to know Christ more because He is the perfect manifestation of God's love for us. I desire to love others like He loves. I dont know about you, but I find it to be amazingly difficult. But I dont want to give up. May we all pray and ask God for His love to fill us and to overflow to everyone around us.