LOVE

1 Corinthians 13

13 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If 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 do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

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

8 Love 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. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When 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 the ways of childhood behind me.12 For now we see only a 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.

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

God has been challenging me so hard for the past few days about my thoughts and my emotions. This passage as it is so commonly known and used is something that is yet to be fathom fully by man. Such is a definition of love that is only perfectly executed by God alone. Even as I read through every single word, everyone of them beckons me to rethink and confess my sinful heart.

 The whole chapter exposes my sins of doing what I do, that if i lack love despite all the great things I have done, I am still considered as nothing. It spells out everything what perfect love is and I am falling so short of it. But more founding of its core is that as the older I become, the more God affirms to me that love is the foundation to what he is calling forth. Even in the midst of what lies a head in faith and hope, love is ultimately a desire of God... and I need to find my purpose and journey with love again.