God's Greatest Gift

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

      Reverend King took that message from our lord Jesus.  Jesus, as the son of God, knew that love is the most powerful and undeniable force that exists.  Love is the essence and total being of God, our father.  No force upon this earth or in all of creation can counteract it.  It is so simple...yet, so powerful.  Make love your weapon of choice.  

13 If I speak in the tongues^[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. ² If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. ³ If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,^[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.

⁴ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵ It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶ Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
⁸ Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰ but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. ¹¹ When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. ¹² For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
¹³ And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

 

1 Corinthians 13 NIV

Shallow Faith

For in the gospel the righteousness of God is revealed - a righteousness that is by faith from first to last, just as it is written: "The righteous will live by faith."

Romans 1:17 NIV

     Faith, something we profess to have, and, yet, we live so very little by it.  We proclaim faith, and, yet, there is so little evidence in our lives.  We live rarely thinking about our life as Christians and what that means.  Only when we are in distress do we turn toward our so-called faith to ask for his holy protection.  He who only asks for faith is served and thought of for a short period on Sundays and in time of distress for the most part. 

     Let's see what we can do about this.  Our Lord truly wants you to lean on him for your needs, not technology or yourselves.  He didn't die that horrible death nailed to that cross because he was powerless to do anything about it.  He died in that manner to save us.  Let's show some respect my fellow saints.