Thought For The Day
The Crystal Lady
Thought For The Day
Love
By Joan Estelle High
©9-27-09
Then it goes on to tell us what love is and does. "Love is always patient and kind.
Our lesson for today is taking from the First
Corinthians.
You might want to grab your bible and turn to
Chapter 13 of First Corinthians
If your bible is the King James version
it will be a little different from the New Jerusalem Bible
so you might find
it interesting to compare them.
I will be quoting lines from
one of most loved and often quoted chapters
in the King James
Bible Chapter 13 of First Corinthians.
But I will also quote
verses from the same chapter of the New Jerusalem Bible.
In
comparing the two it might help to clarify the meaning of the chapter.
Starting with the King James version, I read,
"Though I
speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not charity
(
Love ) I am be-come as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal."
The New Jerusalem Bible tells it a little different but with
the same idea.
"Though I command languages, both human and
angelic -
& if I speak with out love , I am no more a
gong booming or a cymbal clashing.
"Verse 2 , King
James goes on to say "And though I have the gift of prophecy
and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge, and even thought I
have all faith, So that I could remove mountains and have not Charity
(Love) I am nothing."
The New Jerusalem
continues along with the similar meaning and declares
"
Though I give away to the poor all that I possess, and even give up my
body to be burned- If I am without love, it will do me no good what so
ever.
Love is never jealous,
Love is not boastful , it does not take offense or store up
grievances.
Love does not rejoice at wrong doing, but finds its joy
in the truth.
It is always ready to make allowance,
to
trust, hope and to endure whatever comes.
Love never comes to
an end.
But if there are prophecies, they will be done away with.
If tongues ,they will fall silent; and if knowledge, it will be done
away with.
For we know only imperfectly and we prophesy
imperfectly;
but once perfection comes, all imperfect things will
be done away with
When I was a child, I used to talk like a child
and see things as a child does,
and think like a child but now
that I have become an adult,
I have finished with all childish
ways.
Now we see only reflections in a mirror, more riddles,
but then we shall be seeing face to face
Now I can know only
imperfectly
but then I shall know just as fully as I am myself
known.
As it is, these remain, faith, hope and love, the
three of them,
and the greatest of them is love"