February Posts - Love!

LOVE!

During the month of February, I will dig deeply into two of my favorite scripture passages on love – 1 Corinthians 13 and 1 John 4:7-12.

When I was growing up, it seemed the easiest way for me to learn scripture was through song.  I was able to learn the entirety of 1 Corinthians 13 because of a song that sprang from the Jesus Movement. “If I have not charity, if love doesn’t flow from me, I am nothing.  Jesus reduce me to love.”

Jesus reduce me to love.  We can avoid sin, we can go to church every day of the week, we can speak in tongues, we can do it all, but if we do these things without true love which springs from our relationship with Jesus, we are nothing.

It is always all about love.  It will always be about love.  God so loved the world that he gave his only Son.  It is only about love.

Jesus reduce me to love.

1. 1 Corinthians 1:1
2. 1 Corinthians 1:2
3. 1 Corinthians 1:3
4. 1 Corinthians 1:4 - Patient
5. 1 Corinthians 1:4 - Kind
6. 1 Corinthians 1:4 - No Envy
7. 1 Corinthians 1:4 - No boast
8. 1 Corinthians 1:4 - No Pride
9. 1 Corinthians 1:5 - Not Rude
10. 1 Corinthians 1:5 - Not self-seeking
11. 1 Corinthians 1:5 - Not easily angered
12. 1 Corinthians 1:5 - Keeps no record of wrongs
13. 1 Corinthians 1:6 - Does not delight in evil, but rejoices in the truth.
14. 1 Corinthians 1:7 - Always protects
15. 1 Corinthians 1:7 - Always trusts
16. 1 Corinthians 1:7 - Always hopes
17. 1 Corinthians 1:7 - Always perseveres
18. 1 Corinthians 1:8
19. 1 Corinthians 1:9-10
20. 1 Corinthians 1:11
21. 1 Corinthians 1:12
22. 1 Corinthians 1:13 - Faith
23. 1 Corinthians 1:13 - Hope
24. 1 Corinthians 1:13 - Love
25. 1 John 4:7-8
26. 1 John 4:9
27. 1 John 4:10
28. 1 John 4:11
29. 1 John 4:12