Christ Church Daily Devotion June 7 2024

This is a daily devotion from Christ Church on June 7th, 2024. It talks about the importance of love in our lives. The chapter from 1 Corinthians emphasizes that love is essential and without it, our other qualities and actions mean nothing. It explains that love is patient, kind, humble, and does not hold grudges. The devotion encourages reflection on God's love and how we can incorporate these qualities into our own lives. Welcome to Christ Church's Daily Devotion for June 7th, 2024. Today we will be reading from 1 Corinthians chapter 13. If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have 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 do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor, and give over my body to hardship, that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. Love is patient. Love is kind. It does not envy. It does not boast. It is not proud. It does not dishonor others. It is not self-seeking. 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 prophecy in part. But when completeness comes, what is in part 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 the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a 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. This chapter comes in the middle of three chapters where Paul is addressing how to deal with differences among the members of the church. To put it simply, the key is loving one another, no matter what. We use the word love every day in some way or the other. According to one list, it's the 387th most commonly used English word. But do we really know what it means? This chapter shows us the foundation of life with God is love. The scripture tells us that no matter how much we believe something, no matter how smart we are, no matter how strong we are, no matter how awesome we are, if we do not have love, then those other traits don't mean anything. God wants us to live a beautiful and God-honoring life. But love must be first in our life. So, what does that look like? We are patient. We are kind. We are not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. We rejoice in truth and not in wrongdoing. We must receive God's love so that we can share it with others. Your personal worship option today? Reflect on the depth of God's love for you. Take a piece of paper and draw a heart. Write all the attributes of love found in this chapter in and around the heart. How many of those flow through your life? Ask God to increase each of these in your life.