In my Bible reading this morning I read 1 Corinthians 13. To me it sort of seemed to be a continuation of the theme for my post from yesterday. So now that we know that the first and most important thing is our relationship to God, to worshiping Him and to being holy, what is next? Well a response to a right relationship to Christ is naturally service. So, how do we serve?
Do we serve out of duty, do we serve just to "do" something? I'm going to let scripture answer this one for me. God's word always speaks better than I do. :)
This isn't JUST about service but life in general, and I know that many of us know this chapter, but it is always nice to be reminded and refreshed by the Word of God.
1 Corinthians 13:
"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love."
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