All That Matters Is Love...
When will we learn that all of our work; all of our labor; all of our time and energy in doing the work of the ministry is all for LOVE? When will we learn that what we do is not about wearing a title, but it's all for LOVE? It doesn't even matter how much formal education we have had, because the Holy Spirit is our teacher and our guide. What matters is LOVE.
The work we do for the Kingdom has nothing to do with how eloquently we preach or how well we teach. The work we do is based on how many people we REACH. The first thought after talking to the Father in the morning should be, "How many people can I tell about Jesus today?"
If we spend MORE time doing our part to reach the lost, we will have LESS time to boast about what we do and criticize others for what they are not. When I stand before God, the only person that I can give an account for is ME.
And at that appointed time, may the life that I lived speak for me, because all I ever seek to do is LOVE.
Love Is the Greatest
From I Corinthians 13:
1 If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. 3 If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.
4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
8 Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever! 9 Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture! 10 But when full understanding comes, these partial things will become useless.
11 When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. 12 Now we see things imperfectly as in a cloudy mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.
13 Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—AND THE GREATEST OF THESE IS LOVE.
The work we do for the Kingdom has nothing to do with how eloquently we preach or how well we teach. The work we do is based on how many people we REACH. The first thought after talking to the Father in the morning should be, "How many people can I tell about Jesus today?"
If we spend MORE time doing our part to reach the lost, we will have LESS time to boast about what we do and criticize others for what they are not. When I stand before God, the only person that I can give an account for is ME.
And at that appointed time, may the life that I lived speak for me, because all I ever seek to do is LOVE.
Love Is the Greatest
From I Corinthians 13:
1 If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. 3 If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.
4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
8 Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever! 9 Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture! 10 But when full understanding comes, these partial things will become useless.
11 When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. 12 Now we see things imperfectly as in a cloudy mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.
13 Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—AND THE GREATEST OF THESE IS LOVE.
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