I don't know about you, but this week has been a challenge for me. I have had a sick child for most of the week, which has given me plenty of opportunity to practice the qualities of love. You know what I mean. It is not always easy to be patient, kind, and not easily angered when you've tried everything to please them and they are still unhappy because they do not feel well. After about day number 4, I began quoting these scriptures to myself as a reminder of how I should love. After all, I am not always easy to love myself. I know there are many times when the Father is probably tired of having patience with me, when He could easily be angered, when kindness is undeserved, and yet in His great mercy He loves me. Isn't that an amazing thought. God loves me with all of these enduring qualities of love even when the last thing I am is deserving. Even when I whining and complaining and the cause is my own sin sickness, He loves me. Just thinking of that should make it so much easier to love those around us.
This week we continue with the next few verses of 1 Corinthians 13. We're almost there. Only a few more verses and we will have memorized the entire chapter. Keep up the good work!
1Corinthians 13:8-10
Love never fails. But where there are prophesies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.
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