Liz’s Morning Devotional: Scripture selected from Upper Room
June 26, 2024
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
1 If I speak in tongues of human beings and of angels but I don’t have love, I’m a clanging gong or a clashing cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and I know all the mysteries and everything else, and if I have such complete faith that I can move mountains but I don’t have love, I’m nothing. 3 If I give away everything that I have and hand over my own body to feel good about what I’ve done but I don’t have love, I receive no benefit whatsoever. 4 Love is patient, love is kind, it isn’t jealous, it doesn’t brag, it isn’t arrogant, 5 it isn’t rude, it doesn’t seek its own advantage, it isn’t irritable, it doesn’t keep a record of complaints, 6 it isn’t happy with injustice, but it is happy with the truth. 7 Love puts up with all things, trusts in all things, hopes for all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails. As for prophecies, they will be brought to an end. As for tongues, they will stop. As for knowledge, it will be brought to an end. 9 We know in part and we prophesy in part; 10 but when the perfect comes, what is partial will be brought to an end. 11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, reason like a child, think like a child. But now that I have become a man, I’ve put an end to childish things. 12 Now we see a reflection in a mirror; then we will see face-to-face. Now I know partially, but then I will know completely in the same way that I have been completely known. 13 Now faith, hope, and love remain—these three things—and the greatest of these is love.
Good Morning! The greatest of these is love!
As I awake on this Wednesday morning, the final day of my sixty-sixth trip around the sun, I am smiling. This passage has so many wonderful memories attached to it. Love is our why! When everything has gone away, faith, hope, and love remain and the greatest of these is love.
God blesses us with the opportunity to practice giving and receiving love. Of course, there are challenges that arise in our efforts to love: unrequited love, hurtful relationships, and tough love situations.
I saw a post saying that love was the most overused word in the English language. There is a big difference between using the word and practicing the act of love. Love requires work from all parties involved. We have to let go of our pettiness, jealousness, hatred . . .
7 Love puts up with all things, trusts in all things, hopes for all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails.
Creator God, Thank you for this beautiful gift of life. Love is the glue that binds us together. Thank you for teaching us to love. We thank you! In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen
Thought for the day: Our love for others is the true sign that we are children of God.
Let them know we are Christians by our Love! Pastor Liz
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