As I navigate a new relationship, 1 Corinthians 13 comes to mind. I know, it’s been quoted SOOO often when it comes to love and weddings however, there is a reason. I took a look at some of my relationship concerns and realized that they were solvable by applying these scriptures. Not a new thing, I know, but I needed reminding. Funny thing – when I am a doer of the Word God moves me toward Him, a place I am yearning for more and more. I am reminded – whether showing love for my Savior and God or people – love is a verb.
In Him –
Sue
1 If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. 3 If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it;[a] but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.
4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
8 Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages[b] and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever! 9 Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture! 10 But when full understanding comes, these partial things will become useless.
11 When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. 12 Now we see things imperfectly as in a cloudy mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity.[c] All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.
13 Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.
JoAnn Wilson said
Hi Sue,
From a sister to a sister — want you to know I’m praying for you, particularly in this new relationship. All the best God has for you is how I pray.
God Bless,
JoAnn
PS. You made me want to go read 1 Corinthiams 13
myhealedheart said
As always, thank you for being such a sweet, supportive sister in Christ JoAnn. May you feel and demonstrate the love of our Jesus wholly this Valentine’s Day and always!
Sue