Love Suffers Long And Is Kind

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Love can make us immensely vulnerable. What should we love and open ourselves to hurt?

Love is an activity, and it is the essential activity of God himself. God is pleased when we try to love as He does.

Take your child, and then show that child the same patience God shows each of us.

As we “follow the way of love,” we will find ourselves often turning to God, the source of love, and to Jesus, the greater example of love. Only then will we gain a deeper knowledge of what true love is and find the strength to love other like God loves us.

Love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God.

Our Daily Bread – June 21, 2016