God is Love!

Loved this post today!  Speaking of love.  It is the universal word that we all hope to experience.  I don’t know one person, male or female, that doesn’t want to be exclusively, madly, unconditionally loved.  I do not know how this world truly loves apart from the Creator!  He is Love! (I John 4:8) When was the last time that you and I stopped and slowly read I Corinthians 13.

13 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. ² If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. ³ And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.

⁴ Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, ⁵ does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, ⁶ does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; ⁷ bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

⁸ Love never fails; but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. ⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part; ¹⁰ but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. ¹¹ When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. ¹² For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. ¹³ But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.

I challenge you to read it along  me this week.  I recently met with a young couple.  I had been praying for God to show me how way to communicate to them that they had not been loving as they should.  I felt the Spirit respond:  “Read my Word to them.”  I did and God moved.  I fail everyday at loving as I should.  It brings me to my knees to know that He loves me just as I need to be loved.  When it’s all said and done.  When life is finished.  May we be known for our LOVE.