Tuesday, October 7, 2014

I believe in a thing called Love.

If I speak in eloquent Spanish and have an excellent range of vocabulary but don't love, I am nothing more than the noise of a busy city street. 

If I perfectly proclaim all the wonders of my God and reveal all the mysteries of His word and if I have the faith to say to the pyramids, "Move!" and they move, but I don't love, I am nothing. 

If I give every peso I own to the beggars in the metro stations and take the clothes off my back for the children in the streets but have not love, I have done nothing but take steps backwards. 


So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love. 

"Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end."


God, I would love nothing more for you to let this resonate constantly in the furthest corners of our hearts and within our own circumstances.
by day
by hour
by minute 
let this be our song. 
  

2 comments:

  1. so wonderful to take God's words and make them personal and make them yours.

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