14 day plan

Education in the Resurrection Age

Day 5 of 14

GNT

1 Corinthians 13:8-13

8Love is eternal. There are inspired messages, but they are temporary; there are gifts of speaking in strange tongues, but they will cease; there is knowledge, but it will pass. 9For our gifts of knowledge and of inspired messages are only partial; 10but when what is perfect comes, then what is partial will disappear.

11When I was a child, my speech, feelings, and thinking were all those of a child; now that I am an adult, I have no more use for childish ways. 12What we see now is like a dim image in a mirror; then we shall see face-to-face. What I know now is only partial; then it will be complete—as complete as God's knowledge of me.

13Meanwhile these three remain: faith, hope, and love; and the greatest of these is love.

Reflection:  We are people of the resurrection – and as a result we are also people of love. Our destiny is characterised by three virtues – faith, hope and love. When heaven and earth come together as one single reality the creation will be restored and we, too, will be restored as people who know and love God and who know and love one another. The potential that we have for love that we see now and again, but only through a glass dimly, will be what defines our lives. And, if this is how we are to live in eternity, Paul
wants God’s people to be putting on these virtues today, beginning to live as people of faith, hope and love now, foreshadowing the reality that is to come.

Question: What does it mean for us to be people of love? If we are looking forward to living as people of faith, hope and love forever, what steps might we take to put on these virtues today?

Prayer:  Heavenly Father, teach us how to love. Show us how we can be people who reflect your love to those around us. Take us and mature us as people of love in preparation for our participation in your glorious kingdom of the future. Amen.

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the Bible until July 28th with James Pietsch.

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1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Love

1I may be able to speak the languages of human beings and even of angels, but if I have no love, my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell. 2 I may have the gift of inspired preaching; I may have all knowledge and understand all secrets; I may have all the faith needed to move mountains—but if I have no love, I am nothing. 3I may give away everything I have, and even give up my body to be burned—but if I have no love, this does me no good.

4Love is patient and kind; it is not jealous or conceited or proud; 5love is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable; love does not keep a record of wrongs; 6love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth. 7Love never gives up; and its faith, hope, and patience never fail.

8Love is eternal. There are inspired messages, but they are temporary; there are gifts of speaking in strange tongues, but they will cease; there is knowledge, but it will pass. 9For our gifts of knowledge and of inspired messages are only partial; 10but when what is perfect comes, then what is partial will disappear.

11When I was a child, my speech, feelings, and thinking were all those of a child; now that I am an adult, I have no more use for childish ways. 12What we see now is like a dim image in a mirror; then we shall see face-to-face. What I know now is only partial; then it will be complete—as complete as God's knowledge of me.

13Meanwhile these three remain: faith, hope, and love; and the greatest of these is love.

Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition) © 1992 American Bible Society. All rights reserved. Bible text from the Good News Translation (GNT) is not to be reproduced in copies or otherwise by any means except as permitted in writing by American Bible Society, 101 North Independence Mall East, Floor 8, Philadelphia, PA 19106-2155 (www.americanbible.org). LICENSEE shall reproduce the following trademark and trademark notice on the copyright page of each copy of the Licensed Products: ®