{"id":3505,"date":"2019-06-10T11:32:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T16:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=3505"},"modified":"2019-06-10T11:40:35","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T16:40:35","slug":"the-light-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/10\/the-light-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Light"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\" Artist Norman Rockwell<\/b><\/h6>\n
How old are you little girl?<\/h6>\n
I\u2019m sixth, she says through missing teeth<\/em><\/h6>\n
Why have you come forward?<\/h6>\n
Tears rolling down her cheeks<\/h6>\n
Difficult to speak\u2026she says,<\/h6>\n
I want Jesus to live in my heart so,<\/em><\/h6>\n
I won\u2019t be afraid, you know?<\/em><\/h6>\n
I\u2019ll have someone who is always with me<\/em><\/h6>\n
The dark-time is the worst-time\u2026<\/em><\/h6>\n
That\u2019s when the shadows come\u2026you see,<\/em><\/h6>\n
If Jesus comes to live in me, I\u2019ll never ever be in the dark<\/em><\/h6>\n
Even, when, the lights go out\u2026<\/em><\/h6>\n
Because, He is light\u2026<\/em><\/h6>\n
That\u2019s very wise\u2026<\/h6>\n
Let\u2019s pray. Repeat after me.<\/h6>\n
Lord Jesus come into my heart and fill me with your love and light\u2026<\/h6>\n
Live in me all the days of my life and take the dark-shadows away\u2026<\/h6>\n
Fill me with your Holy Spirit so I can grow and obey\u2026<\/h6>\n
This I ask in Jesus name, today. Amen<\/h6>\n
It\u2019s been fifty-nine years since I asked Jesus to come and live in my heart\u2026<\/em><\/h6>\n
Many miles, many tears, many heartaches through the years\u2026<\/em><\/h6>\n
Jesus never left me not one time\u2026<\/em><\/h6>\n
Thank you, Jesus, you are mine<\/em><\/h6>\n
And I am yours\u2026<\/em><\/h6>\n
How can I not love you\u2026?<\/em><\/h6>\n
I love you more and more with the passing of time,<\/em><\/h6>\n
I always will\u2026it\u2019s your<\/strong> love<\/strong> that heals\u2026<\/em><\/h6>\n
My love is patient, my love is kind\u2026it is not burdensome, it is not blind\u2026<\/h6>\n
My Love never fails\u2026<\/h6>\n
What are you seeking? What heartache are you keeping?<\/h6>\n
In the dark-shadows I\u2019ve seen you weeping…<\/h6>\n
Open your heart and let the light come in\u2026<\/h6>\n
~Jesus <3<\/h6>\n
~Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill June 8, 2019<\/h6>\n
1 Corinthians 13 New International Version (NIV)<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n
If I speak in the tongues[a<\/a>]<\/sup> of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>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. 3\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b<\/a>]<\/sup> but do not have love, I gain nothing.<\/em><\/h6>\n
4\u00a0<\/sup><\/em><\/strong>Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.<\/em><\/h6>\n
8\u00a0<\/sup><\/em><\/strong>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. 9\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>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. 12\u00a0<\/sup><\/strong>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.<\/em><\/h6>\n
13\u00a0<\/sup><\/em><\/strong>And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.<\/em><\/h6>\n
Footnotes:<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n
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