HAPPY SUNDAY...
Just thought I would share a chapter in the bible that has definitely impacted me a whole lot these past few weeks, I just keep reading it over and over. I challenges me every time I read it...and I've read it so many times in my life, but I've had more and more of a revelation this time around...
1 Corinthians 13
(Note...I'm going to type out the portion underneath the actual verses shown in my bible which describes in more detail what each of the statements in the scripture mean)
"Without LOVE the most magnificent manifestation of gifts and the most heroic self-sacrifice mean nothing. Right things must be done in the right way...
Love suffers long, having patience with imperfect people.
Love is kind, active in doing good.
Love does not envy; since it is nonpossessive and noncompetitive, it actually wants other people to get ahead. Hence it does not parade itself.
Love has a self-effacing quality; it is not ostentatious.
Love is not puffed up, treating others arrogantly; it does not behave rudely, but displays good manners and courtesy.
Love does not seek its own, insisting on its own rights and demanding precedence; rather it is unselfish.
Love is not provoked; it is not irritable or touchy, rough or hostile, but is graceful under pressure.
Love thinks no evil; it does not keep an account of wrongs done to it; instead, it erases resentments.
Love does not rejoice in iniquity, finding satisfaction in the shortcomings of others and spreading an evil report; rather, it rejoices in the truth, aggressively advertising the good.
Love bears all things, defending and holding other people up.
Love believes the best about others, credits them with good intentions, and is not suspicious.
Love hopes all things, never giving up on people, but affirming their future.
Love endures all things, persevering and remaining loyal to the end"
Isn't that awesome!
Now I just need to be able to live it...
Have a great Sunday
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