LOVE IS WHO YOU ARE!
Speaking in tongues is not the point; love is. It is neither angelic eloquence, nor the mastery of human language that persuades. It doesn’t matter how poetic, prophetic, or profound I may sound; my conversation is reduced to the hollow noise of clanging brass cymbals if love’s echo is absent.
I could predict the future in detail and have a word of knowledge for everyone. I could possess amazing faith, and prove it by moving mountains! It doesn’t make me any more important than anyone else. Love is who you are! You are not defined by your gift or deeds.
Love is not about defending a point of view; even if I am prepared to give away everything I have and die a martyr’s death; love does not have to prove itself by acts of supreme devotion or self sacrifice!
Love is large in being passionate about life and relentlessly patient in bearing the offenses and injuries of others with kindness. Love is completely content and strives for nothing. Love has no desire to make others feel inferior and has no need to sing its own praises.
Love is predictable and does not behave out of character. Love is not ambitious. Love is not spiteful and gets no mileage out of another’s mistakes.
Love sees no joy in injustice. Love’s delight is in everything that truth celebrates.
Love is a fortress where everyone feels protected rather than exposed! Love’s persuasion is persistent! Love believes. Love never loses hope and always remains constant in contradiction.
Love never loses it altitude! Prophecies will cease. Tongues will pause. The quest for knowledge will be inappropriate when perfection is grasped.
What we perceived in prophetic glimpses is now concluded in completeness!
When I was an infant I spoke infant gibberish with the mind of an infant; my reasoning also was typical of an infant; how it all changed when i became a man! I am an infant no more!
There was a time of suspense, when everything we saw was merely mirrored in the prophetic word, like in an enigma; but then I gaze face-to-face; behold, I am in Him! Now I may know even as I have always been known!
Now persuasion and every pleasurable expectation is completed in agape. Agape is the superlative of everything faith and hope always knew to be true about me! Love defines my eternal moment!
-Mirror Bible
