1 Corinthians 13

 I love today's sermon! We're currently on a series called, Church gone pear shaped, and it's through the book of 1 Corinthians, where Paul writes to the Corinth to address several issues that they had. We're going through the gifts that we're given and in 1Corinthians 13: 13"And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love"


We should be rather familiar with 1Corinthians 13:4-8, many use it during their wedding,


"Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails".

It doesn't only describe the love that should be between man and wife, it describes how it should be in the church, how we should be as the body of Christ. It tells us just exactly how we should be and behave, because LOVE is a word of action. It tells us to LOVE like Jesus! That's what I pray to be everyday, to be able to grow so as to Love like Jesus. 

In this time and period of my life, I want to love everyone like Jesus, especially my family and of course, a certain special someone. It's often with the people that we care and love the most that we do not have the best patience and love. That SHOULD change and MUST CHANGE. Because love doesn't come with the wind, it is practiced, it improves with faithful reminder and the strive to become more and more Christ like. 

And on the topic of relationships.. I stumbled upon some really cute cartoons, I know at times it may still be premature to talk about these things, but I do think of them and about them, and when I do.. I think of you (you know who you are). 

That probably is what Jesus's love is in a relationship, and if we strive to love like Jesus does, I'm sure at the end of the day, when we're both old and grey, I'd still be able to hold your hand and tell you, "I Love You, like how I did when I first fell in love with you, but only more". I'd like to recount our life together and you filling in the pieces that I've missed out, I'd like to be able to say at the end of the day that "I'm glad you're my penguin".