Without You, Love, I am nothing.
1 Corinthians 13
The Excellence of Love
1If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
2If 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.
3And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant,
5does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,
6does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8Love 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.
9For we know in part and we prophesy in part;
10but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.
11When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.
12For now we see in a mirror 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.
13But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Love is not a feeling. Love is a choice- like the one Christ made when He died on the cross.
28Do you not know? Have you not heard?
The Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth
Does not become weary or tired
His understanding is inscrutable.
29He gives strength to the weary,
And to him who lacks might He increases power.
30Though youths grow weary and tired,
And vigorous young men stumble badly,
31Yet those who wait for the LORD
Will gain new strength;
They will mount up with wings like eagles,
They will run and not get tired,
They will walk and not become weary. -Isaiah 40:28-31
I'm tired and weary. I'm the definition of imperfect. I'm nothing compared to Christ. Psh. who knows how many people I have disappointed. Walk all over me and call me selfish, conceited, self-righteous, whatever. But I know one thing, thats not love. Love never holds account of a wrong suffered, and love sure is a whole lot more kind than the way I've been treated tonight. I
God, I don't wanna look from hindsight all the mistakes and all the failures I make and go through. I want you to show me where I go wrong. If i am selfish like some strongly believe, then show me and change me. Help me become more completely satisfied with Your love. If You have to break me to recreate me into something more beautiful, then I'm ready. If I'm proud, show me. If I need to love more, show me where. If I am making the wrong decisions, show me the right ones. Your word says that "The mind of man plans his way, but the LORD directs his steps." Direct mine, because I'm listening. Show me Your ways, that I may walk with You and put my trust and hope in you. The cry of my heart is to know you more, to live by the touch of Your hand.
My heart and flesh may fail, but you are my strength, my rock, and my portion forever.
Kaitlin
P.S. Darryl, since I know you'll probably read this. Maybe some of the things you said were true, maybe they were all false.. But you had the nerve to tell me I'm just like my mom. that really hurts. You don't know how much that stung. So you tell me, I've hurt you? I hope it makes you feel a whole lot better, because you've hurt me too. But no worries, i won't drown in what you said,. Christ loves despite all the flaws we have. In the same way, God bless you. And I hope God takes you deeper in Him.
The Excellence of Love
1If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
2If 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.
3And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant,
5does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,
6does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;
7bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
8Love 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.
9For we know in part and we prophesy in part;
10but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.
11When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.
12For now we see in a mirror 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.
13But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.
Love is not a feeling. Love is a choice- like the one Christ made when He died on the cross.
28Do you not know? Have you not heard?
The Everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth
Does not become weary or tired
His understanding is inscrutable.
29He gives strength to the weary,
And to him who lacks might He increases power.
30Though youths grow weary and tired,
And vigorous young men stumble badly,
31Yet those who wait for the LORD
Will gain new strength;
They will mount up with wings like eagles,
They will run and not get tired,
They will walk and not become weary. -Isaiah 40:28-31
I'm tired and weary. I'm the definition of imperfect. I'm nothing compared to Christ. Psh. who knows how many people I have disappointed. Walk all over me and call me selfish, conceited, self-righteous, whatever. But I know one thing, thats not love. Love never holds account of a wrong suffered, and love sure is a whole lot more kind than the way I've been treated tonight. I
God, I don't wanna look from hindsight all the mistakes and all the failures I make and go through. I want you to show me where I go wrong. If i am selfish like some strongly believe, then show me and change me. Help me become more completely satisfied with Your love. If You have to break me to recreate me into something more beautiful, then I'm ready. If I'm proud, show me. If I need to love more, show me where. If I am making the wrong decisions, show me the right ones. Your word says that "The mind of man plans his way, but the LORD directs his steps." Direct mine, because I'm listening. Show me Your ways, that I may walk with You and put my trust and hope in you. The cry of my heart is to know you more, to live by the touch of Your hand.
My heart and flesh may fail, but you are my strength, my rock, and my portion forever.
Kaitlin
P.S. Darryl, since I know you'll probably read this. Maybe some of the things you said were true, maybe they were all false.. But you had the nerve to tell me I'm just like my mom. that really hurts. You don't know how much that stung. So you tell me, I've hurt you? I hope it makes you feel a whole lot better, because you've hurt me too. But no worries, i won't drown in what you said,. Christ loves despite all the flaws we have. In the same way, God bless you. And I hope God takes you deeper in Him.