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It's all about LOVE, LOVE, LOVE...!.!.!... The Apostle Paul wrote one of the most beautiful odes to love found in either secular or religious literature when he wrote the following words from 1 Cor. 13. It has become the code of my life, my spiritual gyroscope, my compass, my inner guiding light. "If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have the faith to move mountains but am not a loving person, I am nothing. If I give away all that I have and deliver my body to be burned, but am not a loving person, I gain nothing... A loving person is patient and kind; he or she is not jealous or boastful, arrogant or rude, irritable or resentment. A loving person does not insist on one's own way. A loving person does not rejoice in those things that are wrong but a loving person rejoices in those things that are right. A loving person bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things and endures all things... If this quality of love ever becomes yours, it will never pass away. As for tongues and religious ecstasies, they will cease. As for knowledge, it too will pass away. For our knowledge is imperfect and our ecstasies are imperfect, but when the Perfect One comes, our imperfections will pass away... When I was a , I spoke like a , I reasoned like a , I thought like a . When I finally became a mature person (for some of us, that is later in life than earlier), I gave up my childish and self-centered ways... Now, I see in a mirror dimly, but in the future, more clearly. Now I know things only partially, but in the future, I shall understand all things fully, even as I have been fully understood my God... So, faith, hope and love abide, these three, but the greatest gift that God has given to us is his love. Therefore, make love your goal, your reason, your purpose for living." That's what it is all about. It's about love, love, love. From the moment you are born until the moment you die; with every second, every minute, every hour, every day, every month, every year, every decade, and in every moment in between, God is teaching you and me the same thing: to be like God, to be fully the most loving person that God can make of us. That's what it is all about. If anyone asks you what it is all about, what life is all about, it is about love, learning to love with the love of God. In First John, chapter 4, the author says, "God is love." That is the first time in the history of the human race that the phrase has ever been said, "God is love." God commands us to love one another in these ways. It is like God commanding fish to swim. It is like commanding birds to fly. It is like God commanding daffodils to be beautiful. When God commands us to love as God loves, God is simply commanding us to be the kind of people that we were created to be in the first place. And that is what it is all about.  LOVE LOVE LOVE  Let the shine!!! michael |
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YES, YES, YES, I posted this about a week ago. I AGREE! Love, Love, Love, Love, Love. It is the reason we were created by the Creator!! Why do some people make it so complicated and difficult? I wish for these people to know the peace, true peace that loving the way Jesus does really brings to their soul. * Sin is sin. Careful what comes across your lips & out your finger tips!!! * We are all the Body of Christ. Let's treat each other as such, with the same respect we give to HIM!! * Relationship advice: DO NOT make someone a PRIORITY, when they ONLY make you an OPTION!! * A woman's heart should be so lost in God, that a man has to seek HIM in order to find her!!
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1/19/2008 9:18 am |
Yes, Michael! Loving and praying. They should be our first response. I think people end up making love more complicated that it is. It's not rocket science. God created us to love, filled us with compassion and the desire to be loved in return. Wonderful post! God's blessings always, Karen God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world. ~C.S. Lewis~ Time to say goodbye
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1/19/2008 1:24 pm |
Yes,..you are so right,..it is all about Agape Love!!! Jesus is the TRUTH..the LIFE..and the WAY..
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