02 August 2021

 Good morning! How are we faithing? What does love mean to us? How do we love the unlovable? How can we be a loving people when all around us is falling down? Are we capable of loving even when we are wronged? Love is an interesting emotion that is manifested with actions. We love our spouse so we buy flowers or take them out or fix a dinner. Those are tangible ways of showing that love. How do we show it to other than family? We help someone carry their groceries. We give money or things to help. We sit and listen to someone when we want to be playing elsewhere. We offer a kind word and a cup of coffee. We look for ways to show Gods kindness and grace. How we come across shows genuine love. If you have to force a smile or help begrudgingly, you need to check your heart to see if you do love or are just going through the motions. Don't get me wrong here, there are times when we act as trained but do this remembering that you are loved and under grace. Sometimes we just are beat and it is an effort to be upbeat and charitable. Don't whoop your own tail but remember to pray and focus on God. The love we have is so great that we can't help but share it. Read this and analyze how it applies to you thinking and your life;


1 Corinthians 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. And 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 deliver 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; but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. When I was a child, I used to speak as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I shall know fully just as I also have been fully known. But now abide faith, hope, love , these three; but the greatest of these is love .
NAS

Heavenly Father,
Thank you for your love for a lot like us. Lord we honor your presence with our praises. We ask for wisdom and insight to the things we encounter every day. We want others to see you in us so they may come to the knowledge of this wonderful love you have for all of us. Lord we ask for your covering on us so we may share courageously and profoundly with everyone. Thank you for forgiving us, in Jesus name, amen

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