I am sharing\u00a0from I Corinthians 13, a very familiar passage known as \u201cthe love chapter\u201d. We read in verses 2 & 3 that if\u00a0we don\u2019t have charity (love)\u00a0we are nothing!<\/p>\n
“And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.\u201d ~I Corinthians 13:2&3~<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n It doesn\u2019t matter what<\/span>\u00a0we do, if\u00a0we do it without<\/span> love it profits nothing! We then read about the different characteristics of love in verses 4-8,<\/p>\n \u201cCharity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,\u00a0 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;\u00a0 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.\u201d<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n We see, in these verses, the true meaning of love. The world portrays love as \u201cWhat can I<\/b> GET<\/strong> from this relationship?\u201d while true love is \u201cWhat can I <\/b>GIVE <\/strong>to this relationship?” Finally, in verse 11, we see this conclusion,<\/p>\n \u201cWhen I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things<\/span>.\u201d<\/strong> <\/em><\/p>\n In any relationship, have we\u00a0really<\/strong> grown up\u00a0in how we love others, or\u00a0do we still show childlike, babyish signs of being impatient, selfish, unkind, proud, quick-tempered\u2026etc.? Remember, we\u2019ll find genuine love in the person who makes it his goal to always serve others<\/strong>! We find the ultimate example of this in John 3:16,<\/p>\n “For God so loved the world, that he gave <\/span>his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n ~ Bethany ~<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am sharing\u00a0from I Corinthians 13, a very familiar passage known as \u201cthe love chapter\u201d. We read in verses 2 & 3 that if\u00a0we don\u2019t have charity (love)\u00a0we are nothing! “And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.\u201d ~I Corinthians 13:2&3~ It doesn\u2019t matter what\u00a0we do, if\u00a0we do it without love it profits nothing! We then read about the different characteristics of love in verses 4-8, \u201cCharity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,\u00a0 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;\u00a0 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.\u201d We see, in these verses, the true meaning of love. The world portrays love as \u201cWhat can I GET from this relationship?\u201d while true love is \u201cWhat can I GIVE to this relationship?” Finally, in verse 11, we see this conclusion, \u201cWhen I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.\u201d In any relationship, have we\u00a0really grown up\u00a0in how we love others, or\u00a0do we still show childlike, babyish signs of being impatient, selfish, unkind, proud, quick-tempered\u2026etc.? Remember, we\u2019ll find genuine love in the person who makes it his goal to always serve others! We find the ultimate example of this in John 3:16, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.\u201d ~ Bethany ~<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growing","category-relationships"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4o6C2-ma","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1377,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions\/1377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inthineheart.com\/staging\/8143\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}