The Excellence of Love

"If 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. And 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. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.

Love is Patient, love is Kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, it does not seek its own, it is not provoked, it does not take into account a wrong suffered, it does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the TRUTH; it bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails." (1 Cor. 13:1-8)

"When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, I used to think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things." (1 Cor. 13:11)

"But now abide in faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these, is love." (1 Cor.13:13)


I have been drawn to read these passages over and over again recently. Here's what God has clearly put on my heart: I want to find out what it means to ABIDE in Christ, and give him everything. I want to return to my first Love, Him, and the way it felt when I was so close with Him. I want to experience this love that He talks about...and give it to others. I want to have a very close and very intimate relationship with Him...I want what makes Him sad to make me sad, and what makes Him happy to make me happy. I really desire this relationship from Him and am praying for a (female) friend here at school that would be willing to embark on this with me. I think this is one request that God doesn't often refuse. :) I am ready to move forward and ready to give up what I've treasured for too long in my own hands. What a scary thing, being so vulnerable to having the worst of yourself revealed to yourself....but Love, God's Love, makes me do crazy things.... That's all I felt like saying today. I hope everyone is doing well, and have a good night. :)