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Love, A Must
By Tega Samuel
One of the most challenging chapters in the Bible is 1 Corinthians 13. Check out the qualities of love: patient, kindhumble, always polite, unselfish, temperatebears all things, believes all things, hopes all thingsNEVER FAILS! Oops! That makes me want to squirm and scratch my head.
Even just a cursory look at those qualities shows that they are humanly impossible to attain! But 1 Corinthians 13 challenges us (and rightly so), to love the unlovable; to be patient with the insufferable; to believe the best about people, even if they have let us down time and again; to be courteous even when the opposite seems perfectly in order. It compels us to examine our hearts every time we sing, 'Father we declare that we lo-ove you' For we lie, if as we sing that song we harbour hatred for anyone in our heart. 1 John 4:20b says, 'he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, how can he love God whom he has not seen?' And in 1 John 3:15 we see that: whoever hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him.
It is obvious that there is no evading the issue of love. We cannot overtake it once and for all in the race of faith just so we don't have to deal with it anymore. If we do so we overtake our very salvation. And with salvation behind, only doom could be ahead. But God forbid!
Let's take time to 'do' love. It is a deliberate, costly act: possible only by total dependence on the Holy Spirit of God that dwells within us. It's a comforting to know that it's His good pleasure to help us; or else I'd give up right now! But I dare to lean on His grace. Did I say 'lean'? I meant 'throw myself completely' on the Holy Spirit!
Cheer up. Love is 'do-able'. Go ahead and give it another try in spite of the pains and hurt you may have suffered from loved ones and not-so-loved ones. I bet you'll soon have a testimony.
Pastor (Mrs) Tega Samuel
Born: 26/06/67
Education: B A English & Literature, PGDE
Interests: baking, making beaded jewellery, singing, teaching
Church:
Christian Teaching Centre
123 Apapa Road
Ebute-Metta West Lagos
Nigeria.
email: flourishing_vine@yahoo.co.uk
Married with 2 children
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1Co 13:1 IF I [can] speak in the tongues of men and [even] of angels, but have not love (that reasoning, intentional, spiritual devotion such as is inspired by God's love for and in us), I am only a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
1Co 13:2 And if I have prophetic powers (the gift of interpreting the divine will and purpose), and understand all the secret truths and mysteries and possess all knowledge, and if I have [sufficient] faith so that I can remove mountains, but have not love (God's love in me) I am nothing (a useless nobody).
1Co 13:3 Even if I dole out all that I have [to the poor in providing] food, and if I surrender my body to be burned or in order that I may glory, but have not love (God's love in me), I gain nothing.
1Co 13:4 Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily.
1Co 13:5 It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly. Love (God's love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong].
1Co 13:6 It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth prevail.
1Co 13:7 Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening].
1Co 13:8 Love never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end]. As for prophecy (the gift of interpreting the divine will and purpose), it will be fulfilled and pass away; as for tongues, they will be destroyed and cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away [it will lose its value and be superseded by truth].
1Co 13:9 For our knowledge is fragmentary (incomplete and imperfect), and our prophecy (our teaching) is fragmentary (incomplete and imperfect).
1Co 13:10 But when the complete and perfect (total) comes, the incomplete and imperfect will vanish away (become antiquated, void, and superseded).
1Co 13:11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; now that I have become a man, I am done with childish ways and have put them aside.
1Co 13:12 For now we are looking in a mirror that gives only a dim (blurred) reflection [of reality as in a riddle or enigma], but then [when perfection comes] we shall see in reality and face to face! Now I know in part (imperfectly), but then I shall know and understand fully and clearly, even in the same manner as I have been fully and clearly known and understood [by God].
1Co 13:13 And so faith, hope, love abide [faith--conviction and belief respecting man's relation to God and divine things; hope--joyful and confident expectation of eternal salvation; love--true affection for God and man, growing out of God's love for and in us], these three; but the greatest of these is love.
(1 Cor 13)
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