Thought for Today - May 25, 2023
To Love God and One Another
Robert A.Searles
Charity is another word for love.. Jesus taught that the greatest of all the commandments is to love God with all our mind, soul and spirit, and to love all people as we love ourselves. If we could do this, we will have fulfilled all the law and commandments, Jesus also said,"if you love me you will obey my commandments." We need to ask ourselves each and every day-"Do I truly love God and others as Jesus has commanded or is this just not true of me?"
If we find ourselves not loving God and others as we should, then our going to church, singing hymns, giving money, doing good works, speaking in tongues, praying, listening to a weekly lecture etc, is just a lot of noise in the ears of God . Perhaps we have not truly been spiritually "born again" and filled with the Holy Spirit. If God reveals to us that this is true, Then, let us repent and ask God to forgive us nd help us to love God and people before we claim to be serving God.
" Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought] as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity. "
1 Corinthians 13
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