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Day 24: Love Never Fails

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Have you ever read something

hundreds of times,

and have heard the something

hundreds of times,

and then you read it

or hear it

another time,

and it is like it is the very first time~

because it pierces your heart so deeply

that you wonder if your heart every heard the words before.

I just did.

Read the following WORDS so slowly,

 as if it is the only thing you will read today.

"LOVE

is

PATIENT.

LOVE

is

KIND.

LOVE

isn't

JEALOUS.

It

DOESN'T

 sing

its

 own

 praises.

 It

ISN'T

ARROGANT.

  It

ISN'T

RUDE.

It

DOESN'T

THINK

about

ITSELF.

 It

ISN'T

IRRITABLE

 It

DOESN'T

KEEP

 track

of

WRONGS"

(I Corinthians 13:4-5).

I don't know why,

 but tears fill my being

just writing these

WORDS of TRUTH.

The WORDS that stand out are

DOESN'T and ISN'T.

OUCH!

Don't you feel it?

LOVE IS

 all gushy and mushy and feels so good,

but the

DOESN'T and ISN'T 

parts of

LOVE

DO NOT feel so good,

and

AREN'T

so mushy and gushy

when you realize that

you have been

ARROGANT,

RUDE,

PRIDEFUL,

IRRITABLE,

and

RECORDING ALL WRONGS.

OUCH!

Maybe you haven't felt like this,

but wow how I see the

PLANK in my eyes,

when I judge others

of having these traits,

when I am the one who has them.

OUCH!

When I read these WORDS this morning,

it was as if

GOD GRACIOUSLY 

reached down

into my HEART,

to

remind me

with HIS WORDS,

 to

once again

GIVE HIM my ALL

because

 HE wants my ALL

because

HE wants to GIVE me HIS ALL.

A personal invitation to

LOVE others more,

when you

take to

HEART

the WORDS of

JESUS~

"You shall

LOVE the LORD your GOD

with ALL your HEART,

 with ALL your SOUL,

 and

with ALL your MIND"

(Matthew 22:37).

And when you do

LOVE GOD with your ALL,

how can you possibly

NOT be

PATIENT,

KIND,

NOT JEALOUS,

NOT PRIDEFUL,

NOT ARROGANT,

 NOT RUDE,

NOT PRIDEFUL,

NOT IRRITABLE,

and

NOT becoming a tape recorder

that

RECORDS ALL WRONGS

to play over and over again.

I was holding out on

LOVING GOD

with my ALL.

but because

GOD SO LOVES

HE gently reminded me that

even though I know I feel like

 I LOVE HIM and JESUS with my ALL,

 it is a morning like this

when

HIS WORDS become like an arrow

that strike my HEART in a space

where

 HE is LOVING me with such

PATIENCE

and

KINDNESS,

because

HE wants my ALL

so that HE becomes my ALL. 

For GOD so LOVES,

that HE never stops

LOVING

me & you & everyone else,

with

HIS WORD

that is so ALIVE and WELL,

that it makes us live

ALIVE and WELL

because

"GOD means what HE says.

What HE says goes.

HIS powerful WORD is sharp as a surgeon’s scalpel,

cutting through everything,

whether doubt or defense,

laying us open to listen and obey.

Nothing and no one can resist GOD'S WORD.

We can’t get away from it~

no matter what"

(Hebrews 4:12-13).

What a GLORIOUS morning

to be so

GRACED by GOD,

because

HIS

"LOVE WILL NEVER FAIL"

(listen to the song below)




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