Month: March 2022

The Kitchen Table

Day 39

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.                 1 Corinthians 13:8-10

Not only does love not end, but it also is not intimidated.  Love has the answer.  Gifts will eventually give in but true love will not give out.  Gifts might get us there, but love will get us through.  If we can keep on loving we can keep on living.

The  Kitchen Table

Day 38

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.                   1 Corinthians 13:8

Love never ends and never comes to an ending place.  It never quits and never needs to end.  Everything else has an ending but not love.  This all means that God will never stop loving us and, if we let it, His love will never finish loving through us.  God’s love never stops, never quits, and never ends its work in us and through us who believe in God who is love.  Our love may be frustrated but it won’t ever finish.  The only love that never finishes is God’s love for us that works through us and always has more than any of us can imagine.  Think about that!

Kitchen Table

Day 27

“Love”

Love… bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 1 Corinthians 13:7

Love doesn’t give up.  Love holds on and holds out even when everyone else has left the room.  Lust doesn’t last that long.  Some people love lust so they will be stubborn to get what they want but love is steadfast for what God wants.  What God wants is love, the real thing.  Love isn’t stubborn, it’s steadfast because love always believes.  Love creates hope that inspires faith and love lives for that hope by faith.  This is what that means, love begins with God and ends with us.  How we love is determined by who loves us and once we’ve found God’s love, we don’t have to give up and give in to any other kind of love.  Don’t be afraid to believe; God loves you.

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Day 36

“Love”

it does not rejoice at wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth.

1 Corinthians 13:6

We cannot walk in love and not operate in truth, doing what is really right in God’s eyes.  Anything less than right and true is a perversion of love and involves some kind of lust.  Love possesses and pursues what is right and true with a passion.  True love will not fold to what is wrong and warped.  And as love works in our lives, as we begin to see it and seek it, we will begin to target what is right and true, trusting the One who is always right and true. 

Kitchen Table

Day 35

“Love”

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,               1 Corinthians 13:4-5

Love is a peculiar and powerful force in our lives and in this world.  It operates from our belief, not from what we behold.  That is why love is so strong.  It lives from within us and that’s why what we believe must be right and real.  If what we believe is not right nor real, we will become motivated by what’s wrong for us and for others.  Love operates in truth.  Know what you believe is right and real.