Sunday, February 03, 2008
Love

I'm not sure if anyone from my class reads this anymore, but if you are, aren't you excited for our mission's trip??? I can't believe we're leaving in less than a week!

To fill the rest of you in, the theme verse we have picked is found in Matthew 17:20...

"I tell you the truth: if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain 'Move from here to there' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you".

To that I just wanted to add something I came across as I was reading this week in 1 Corinthians 13. Interesting, because it's a very commonly read chapter of the Bible, but I came across a few verses at the beginning of the chapter that everybody always seems to skim over.

"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".

This was a good reminder that we need to come together as a team in love, because despite any amount of faith or anything else we may possess, we will have absolutely nothing if we do not have love toward each other and toward others.

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