1Corinthian’s Chapter 13

Brothers and Sisters 😊

📖 In First Corinthian’s chapter 13 today Paul shows us a “More excellent way”, as the first fruit of the Spirit (Love) is perfectly defined and exalted above all else…

“If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, having prophetic powers and understanding all mysteries with all knowledge, and if I have all faith to remove mountains and give away all that I have to feed the poor, and deliver up my body to be burned and die as a martyr – if I do all these things and do not have love, it does not profit me one thing and I have nothing” (vs 1-3).

Q. Have you ever put ambition, rivalry, personal gain, winning an argument, holding a grudge, desire to rule, or selfish motives over and above loving others according to love’s true definition in first Corinthian’s 13?

Q. Knowing that God does not grade on a curve, how desperate is your need for mercy and Gospel grace when you realize that this love is the standard by which we all will be judged?

🙏 Heavenly Father I humbly confess to you my greatest sinful failures in life, and ask your eternal pardon and forgiveness for the countless times I have knowingly and unknowingly neglected to love you and others as I should.

🙏 Lord Jesus we praise you today that you set your face like flint, and accomplished the greatest act of love the universe has ever known at the cross – All so that we could be forgiven, redeemed, adopted, favored, and welcomed with you forever in a world where faith will be unnecessary, hope will be fulfilled, and possessing perfect love for you and your people will finally become a true reality for all who have put their trust in you, as Love will live on forevermore…

✝️ “For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face-to-face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.”

1 Corinthians 13:12-13