Sunday, September 27, 2015

The Anecdote to Anxiety

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If 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 do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love 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. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when that which is perfect comes, what is in part will disappear. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I thought as a child, I reasoned as a child. When I became a man, I put the ways childish things. For now we see only a 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. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love.
But the greatest of these is love.

"Perfect love casts out fear."

The only perfect love any of us will ever experience is the perfect love of God.

Regarding God's love, His Holy Bible tells us that it "never fails." I Corinthians 13:8
Regarding God's love, His Holy Bible tells us that everything else we trust and understand will disappoint us, but God's love will never let us down.
Regarding God's love, His Holy Bible tells us that HE IS LOVE.

His Holy Bible is His love letter to us. Within its pages, we may find rest for our souls, we may find truth for the ages, we may find salvation for our eternity, we may find LOVE because we will find JESUS WHO IS THE LIVING WORD within the Holy Word.
"We might still feel afraid, but we can believe that God is with us. We may not be in control, but we can trust the One who is."

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