The Excellence of Love
1If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, 5does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, 6does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part; 10but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. 11When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. 12For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. 13But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Do you have the love of Jesus?
Do you display His love?
Can others observe that you are a Christian?
Paul uses the analogy of a child and man as a comparison to becoming and maturing as a Christian.
So I have to ask, are you a child or a man in Christ?
Do you gossip? Childish behavior!
Speak unloving things? Childish behavior!
Display unloving attributes? Childish behavior!
I could go on but you get the picture.
Ask yourself WWJD? And if you act accordingly then you are a man in Christ, yes a mature Christian.
WWJD: What Would Jesus Do?
What would you do? If you are of Jesus act like it!
John 13:35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."
Blessings, David
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