S - 1 Cor 13 (NASB)
If I speak with the tongues of mankind and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 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. 3 And if I give away all my possessions to charity, and if I surrender my body so that I may [a]glory, but do not have love, it does me no good.
4 Love is patient, love is kind, it is not jealous; love does not brag, it is not arrogant. 5 It does not act disgracefully, it does not seek its own benefit; it is not provoked, does not keep an account of a wrong suffered, 6 it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; 7 it [b]keeps every confidence, it believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8 Love never fails; but if there are gifts of [c]prophecy, they will be done away with; if there are tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away with. 9 For we know in part and prophesy in part; 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away with. 11 When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I [d]became a man, I did away with childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror [e]dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I also have been fully known. 13 But now faith, hope, and love remain, these three; but the [f]greatest of these is love,
O - Love is the greatest of the characters of God that he wants us to example. Love is patient, kind, not jealous, not proud, is humble. It does not act disgracefully, and works not for its own good but for the glory of God. Love is not easily provoked, and is quick to forgive when an offense against it is suffered. Paul is speaking all of these things to the church at Corinth and reminding them of the most important character trait to display.
A - The application for me is to make sure that I love well. I am not to use these traits to get my way but rather love to get God's way. I must trust in my faith in God that He will lead me to love His way. I must put my hope in the Lord that He might restore my family and my ability to love them well. I must plant seeds of love in my wife and my girls and cultivate and nurture them so it may grow strong and deep.
P - Dear heavenly Father, forgive me for I once again have treated you daughter Abby poorly. I pray that you would provide her comfort and healing and if it is your will provide these to her through me. I pray all this in Jesus' name, Amen.
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