Happy Valentines Day!

1 Corinthians 13
Love 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.


All right, how are you loving? One of my friends from Bible study challenged us to put our name in I Cor. 13 where ever the word love is quoted from verse 4 on ... Steph is patient, Steph is kind. Steph does not envy, Steph does not boast, Steph is not proud. Steph is not rude, Steph is not self-seeking, Steph is not easily angered, Steph keeps no records of wrongs.... I wish this was all true! I am sorry Lord, but I have fallen so short of this even just today!!!
How about you? How do you measure up? I had never thought of I Cor 13 as a measuring stick for love but it is! Love well! Happy Valentine's Day