Corinthians 13 ( The Message )

Love never gives up.

Love cares for others more than self.

Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.

Love doesn't strut,

Doesn't have a swelled head,

Doesn't force itself on others,

Isn't always "me first,"

Doesn't fly off the handle,

Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,

Doesn't revel when others grovel,

Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,

Puts up with anything,

Trust God always,

Always look for the best,

Never looks back,

But keeps going to the end.

Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over someday; 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

cancelled.

When I was an infant at my mother's breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew

up, I left those infant ways for good.

We don't yet see things clearly. We're squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won't be

long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We'll see it all then, see it all as clearly

as God sees us, knowing him directly as he knows us!

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, and love extravagantly.

And the best of the three is love.

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