Do you think of Jesus and His birth with wonder and awe? As Christmas is fast approaching…on what is your mind focused?  Are preparations for the Christmas holiday weighing you down, do you have a short temper…do you feel frazzled, frayed and frustrated? Have you thought of Jesus and His birth with wonder and awe […]

What kind of love, what kind of hope do you have in Christ Jesus? Is your love and hope weak, flimsy, of little value to you?  The followers of Christ are to be strong and courageous, believing in the living hope in the resurrected Lord Jesus Christ. (Amplified) 1 Corinthians 13:7 Love’s…“ hopes are fadeless […]

God knows your potential in Christ Jesus. (Amplified) 1 Corinthians 13:7 Love…“is ever ready to believe the best of every person…” Do you have friends who see and who express what they believe about the best in people?  I do…and how I appreciate that…and I am blessed. An Example to Follow: God’s love extended to […]

(Amplified) 1 Corinthians 13:1 “IF I [can] speak in the tongues of men and [even] of angels, but have not love (that reasoning, intentional, spiritual devotion such as is inspired by God’s love for and in us), I am only a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.” God’s love is FOR you…His love which reasons, […]

(NIV) 1 Corinthians 13:6 “Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.” Consider the following verses and note the hope of being freed from sin: (NASB) 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 “Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God?  Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, […]

(NASB) 1 Corinthians 13:6 Love…“does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth.” Before you asked Jesus to be your Savior, what was your life like?  Was it filled with anger or bitterness, or self-pity or fear, or desperation or other negative feelings which consumed your thinking?  Any of these conditions are a miserable […]

Psalm 12:1, 5-6 1 “HOW LONG, O LORD?  Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? 5 But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation. 6 I will sing to the LORD, for he has been good to me.”

What?  Who will ‘get even’ if I don’t?  Do you mean that list I’ve kept for years will have to be thrown out? (Amplified) 1 Corinthians 13:5 Love…“takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong.]” (NIV) 1 Corinthians 13:5 Love…“keeps no record of wrongs.” Self-pity, revenge, […]

(NASB) 1 Corinthians 13:5 Love…“is not provoked…” (NIV) 1 Corinthians 13:5 Love…“is not easily angered…” (Amplified) 1 Corinthians 13:5 Love…“is not touchy or fretful or resentful…” As you go through your day, perhaps you will monitor what triggers your anger, what makes you fret or become resentful… Love ~ God’s love in you ~ can […]

(NASB) 1 Corinthians 13:5 Love…“does not seek its own…” (Amplified) 1 Corinthians 13:5 …“Love (God’s love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self seeking…” Love is unselfish, thinking of others first. Those without knowledge of God’s word (the Bible) have a different point of […]