Today is day 5 of my 30 day adventure into honesty. Each day I’m supposed to share something that is on the list for that particular day in great detail. Today is about one of my favorite subjects- LOVE.
Truth is- love is everywhere we look and without it the world would be impossible to live in. No matter who you are, where you live, what your background is- love is something we all need. There are many different types of love, and quite honestly the best description you could ever find on what LOVE is all about can be found in none other than the Bible.
August 5- Describe love in great detail.
1 Corinthians Chapter 13 is known as the ‘love’ chapter in the Bible and below is the NIV (New International Version) of what love is. This sums it up in a nutshell.
1If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Simply put- God is Love- and Love is EVERYTHING!
I’m enjoying reading your 30 days of honesty. I think you’re honest every day though.
Comment by Vivi — August 5, 2010 @ 11:59 am
Awww Hey Vivi- I didn’t know you were stopping in 🙂 I miss you and in fact, just sent you an email.
Comment by gardener — August 7, 2010 @ 10:12 am