As a child I learned this: “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not love, I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling symbol. And though I have the gift of prophecy and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith so that I can remove mountains and have not love, I am nothing… it profits me nothing.
Love suffers long and is kind. Love envies not. Love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up…is not easily provoked, …” And now I have forgotten the next phrase.
Go to the end of I Corinthians 13 and you find: “And now abides faith, hope, love: these three but the greatest of these is love.”
Power? When we believe this… “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” The Holy Spirit abides in you and places the power to love in your heart and soul and mind. Love moves you to forgiveness. Love sent Jesus, The Son of God to earth to die for your sins and mine. As I was lying on the floor in my bedroom doing exercises, I began to think (sadly) of the escalation of violence in our Country. But in the quietness of the room a disturbing thought slowly came to me: I’ve lacked love too many times. I’ve been unkind. My failings brought me to a prayer right there in the quietness of my bedroom: Lord, forgive me for my sins. In Jesus Name. Jesus, fill me with your powerful love. Scripture above is I Corinthians 13 “The Love Chapter” and John 3:16.
Read your Bible every day. The wisdom there will be the Way to a successful life.
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