What is Love? No words can define it,
It's something so great only God could design it…
Wonder of wonders, Beyond man's conception,
And only in God can love find true perfection,
For love means much more than small words can express,
For what man calls love is so very much less
Than the beauty and depth and the true richness of
God's gift to mankind---His compassionate love
For love has become a word that's misused,
Perverted, distorted and often abused,
To speak of "light romance" or some affinity for a
passing attraction
That is seldom much more than a mere interlude
Of inflamed fascination, A romantic fling of no lasting
duration…
But love is enduring and patient and kind,
It judges all things with the heart not the mind,
And love can transform the most commonplace
Into beauty and splendor and sweetness and grace…
For love is unselfish, giving more than it takes,
And no matter what happens Love never forsakes,
It's faithful and trusting and always believing,
Guileless and honest and never deceiving…
Yes, love is beyond what man can define,
For love is immortal and God's Gift is Divine!
Author Unknown
I Corinthians 13
"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling 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, and have not charity, I am nothing.
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up. Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easity, provoked, thinketh no evil;
Verse 6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; Bearth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away. For we know in part and prophesy in part.
But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake 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 through a glass darkly; but then face to face; now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
Author: Paul, as moved upon by the Holy Ghost
The words CHARITY could be replaced with the word LOVE.
By: Betty J. Ivey