It is easy at times to go through the motions of life with all the responsibilities we have, with all that we need to accomplish day in and day out. We can set it on auto-pilot and just forget about things. We learn what is expected of us, when it is expected, and sometimes why it is expected. We go through our day just trying to survive till the end.
Life can get pretty overwhelming at times and it becomes very easy to take the world onto your shoulders. This eventually leads to a mental and emotional overload and we can fall right into auto-pilot to deal with it. But what does this do to our hearts? What does this do to our relationship with God?
Do we trust in God at those times? Do we grieve when we sin if we have it on auto-pilot? Do we love God the way he calls us? Do we love those around us then?
Do not put your heart onto auto-pilot, Beloved, but draw closer to God and fall deeper in love with Him. Lord do an amazing work in us today!
Posted by price at April 8, 2005 01:02 PM | TrackBack1 Corinthians 13
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not 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 have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not selfseeking, 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 perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When 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. Now 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.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Thank you, that was something I needed to read/hear today.
Posted by: Rachael at April 8, 2005 09:54 PMI'm so glad that touched your heart and made an impact in your day!
Posted by: Jeff Price at April 12, 2005 09:27 AM