God is Love!

Loved this post today!  Screen Shot 2014-02-11 at 1.50.18 PMSpeaking 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. 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. 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.

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

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. 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.

I’m loving and praying for you today!
Diane Nix
Diane Nix

 

Diane Nix is the director and founder of Contagious Joy 4 Him, a network of encouragement to ministry wives around the globe.  Her husband, Dr. Preston, is professor of evangelism and evangelistic preaching at NOBTS.  They have been serving in ministry together for 30 years and have two biological daughters and two grown spiritual daughters.  She is an author, speaker and blogger.

 

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