Good Morning Friends,
“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 prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect 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 childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor 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.” (1
Corinthians 13:8-13)
There aren’t very many things that last
forever. The world certainly won’t. There will come a day when this world, as we
know it, will be totally renovated into a new earth. The things we accumulate on earth won’t last,
either. The money we save, the
possessions we own, the fame we gain, the power we possess, none of these will
last long. For most of us, they won’t
last beyond our last breath on earth.
We are saved by faith, but not even faith
lasts forever. Its results do, as we
gain eternal life through it. But faith
itself will dissolve into sight when we stand in God's presence. Hope won’t last forever, either. The eternity we hope for will last, but not
hope itself. Hope will turn into reality
when we see Jesus.
But there are things that will last. The word of God lasts forever. Although not in the form in which we know it,
the Bible, constrained by the limits of the human mind. Human beings last forever. That’s why love is so important. How we treat people has an impact on our
lives and upon theirs in this world, and it has the potential for an eternal
impact on our lives and theirs, too.
You can give yourself to a lot of things, and
some of them are very good. But none of
them is better, or more important, than loving relationships with the people
around you.
His, by Grace,
Steve
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