Let us take that powerful passage from the Apostle Paul about Love and spend the rest of this month considering it, praying about it and letting it work in us for the Glory of God.

Below is a simple interpretation of I Corinthians 13.
It is so profound even the angels of heaven stand in awe of it.

  If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing.

If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love.

   Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self.  Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.  Love doesn't strut,  Doesn't have a swelled head,  Doesn't force itself on others, Isn't always "me first," Doesn't fly off the handle,   Doesn't keep score of the sins of others, Doesn't revel when others grovel, Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, Puts up with anything, Trusts God always, Always looks for the best,  Never looks back, But keeps going to the end.

Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.

When I was an infant at my mother's breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.

We don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won't be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We'll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!

But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.

DAY 28—The Love that comes to us from God, and that brings perfection with it, is never proud.

Love does not seek to make itself known. It is content to perform whether anyone ever knows, or not. The real Love of God, when it is put into action in a believer, may be so hidden that none will ever know but God Himself.

Paul, inspired marvelously by the Holy Spirit, is able to describe what this kind of love is like.

• I Corinthians 13:4,5—Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up; doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil.

In order to gain a fuller grasp on what the Apostle has said, let us read this from the New International Reader’s Version. See the simplicity and let it bathe your own heart, as it does mine. The fact is, I believe that the love from God that moves upon us, and within us, is itself a simple movement from His Spirit to our heart.

•Love is patient. •Love is kind. •It does not want what belongs to others. •It does not brag. •It is not proud. • It is not rude. •It does not look out for its own interests. •It does not easily become angry. •It does not keep track of other people’s wrongs.

DEAR FATHER, I come before Your Throne with simple requests. Work into the love that I have received from Your Spirit a long-suffering  and kindness toward the people around me. Help me be content with what things I have while rejoicing in the prosperity of others. Please work a true humility into my spirit and set me free from the rudeness that sometimes comes upon me. Help me, DEAR LORD, to be concerned about the welfare of others, whether I get along well or not. Set me free from the outbursts of anger that have been coming from me lately. And, LORD, lately, I’ve spread to others the information of some other’s failures. I should not have done this. Please set me free from this tendency.

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