Moving Mountains
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If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.
And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
This verse has been running through my brain so much within the last couple of days. I think about how it sums be me up really well. I try so hard to know so much about God. I am the type of person that needs to know everything and I pride myself on the knowledge that I have.
I know about God's love and I will talk about it freely but for some reason my own ability to love is inhibited. I would much rather say, "God, if you just send me the good-looking, sinless, normal, and unflawed I will gladly love them. Jesus takes care of the weary and heavy-laden so I'll take those whose worries are least cumbersome."
I have become the "clanging symbol" with my empty words and barren promises. God, help me to love like you. There is nothing else I could ask of you that could be more important than this: teach me to love.Currently listening to:
The Alchemy Index, Vols. III & IV: Air & Earth by Thrice (listen to Moving Mountains for a cool take on 1 Corinthians 13:1-3)
Guero by Beck
Five Score and Seven Years Ago by Relient K
The Reminder by Feist
Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace by Foo Fighters
Currently reading:
1st Corinthians 13:1-3
The Third Policeman by Flann O'brien
That's been one of my favorite passages of Scripture for most of my life. It puts a new meaning to our actions. If God is love, and if we do not have love, what we do is worthless. Before anything we do, the great "I AM" must make Himself evident in our lives.