{"id":6318,"date":"2022-09-09T11:25:42","date_gmt":"2022-09-09T16:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/?p=6318"},"modified":"2022-09-09T11:26:33","modified_gmt":"2022-09-09T16:26:33","slug":"the-most-important-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/09\/the-most-important-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Important Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Three times within the last hour I\u2019ve come across I Corinthians 13:1-13; Love is\u2026<\/h6>\n
So, God is saying\u2026<\/h6>\n
The most important thing is, The Way of Love<\/em><\/strong><\/h6>\n
If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don\u2019t love, I\u2019m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.<\/em><\/h6>\n
2\u00a0<\/sup><\/em><\/strong>If I speak God\u2019s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, \u201cJump,\u201d and it jumps, but I don\u2019t love, I\u2019m nothing.<\/em><\/h6>\n
3-7\u00a0<\/sup><\/em><\/strong>If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don\u2019t love, I\u2019ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I\u2019m bankrupt without love.<\/em><\/h6>\n
Love never gives up.
\nLove cares more for others than for self.
\nLove doesn\u2019t want what it doesn\u2019t have.
\nLove doesn\u2019t strut,
\nDoesn\u2019t have a swelled head,
\nDoesn\u2019t force itself on others,
\nIsn\u2019t always \u201cme first,\u201d
\nDoesn\u2019t fly off the handle,
\nDoesn\u2019t keep score of the sins of others,
\nDoesn\u2019t revel when others grovel,
\nTakes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
\nPuts up with anything,
\nTrusts God always,
\nAlways looks for the best,
\nNever looks back,
\nBut keeps going to the end.<\/em><\/h6>\n
8-10\u00a0<\/sup><\/em><\/strong>Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.<\/em><\/h6>\n
11\u00a0<\/sup><\/em><\/strong>When I was an infant at my mother\u2019s breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.<\/em><\/h6>\n
12\u00a0<\/sup><\/em><\/strong>We don\u2019t yet see things clearly. We\u2019re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won\u2019t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We\u2019ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!<\/em><\/h6>\n
13\u00a0<\/sup><\/em><\/strong>But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love. 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 The Message Bible<\/strong><\/em><\/h6>\n
Marla Shaw O\u2019Neill, BCBB, September 9, 2022<\/em><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three times within the last hour I\u2019ve come across I Corinthians 13:1-13; Love is\u2026 So, God is saying\u2026 The most important thing is, The Way of Love If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don\u2019t love, I\u2019m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. 2\u00a0If I speak God\u2019s Word with power,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8aPxH-1DU","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6321,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6318\/revisions\/6321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/becourageousbebold.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}