So this is it: Please have a read if you would and just ponder what this passage means to you, and maybe write your own version, it was a great experience. God Bless You All:
1 Corinthians 13 (MySpiritSings
Re-Write)
Even though I play the guitar and
sing, it’s going to be flat if I don’t have a love and passion deep within me
that brings those things out, then it’s just pretend, a front, unreal, in fact,
it would be a lie. I can write and speak about so many things but again if I do
not do all that with love in my heart then it is a lie.
It’s amazing when you take time
to speak with the homeless, the Big Issue seller, who really is annoying
sometimes with his “Please bye my magazine”, or as Simon shouts in Norwich,
“Come and form a queue to buy my Big Issue”, the story that exists under the
surface of what they “appear” to be. Looks are deceiving and are often based on
my own bias. It is love and not pity that must drive my reason for engaging
with them, for providing some financial and practical help.
Only through love can I ever hope
to learn to be patient when others frustrate me, when situations come on top of
me, to be kind to those I don’t really want to be kind to because it is too
much hassle. And it’s no good talking about what I do at all, unless it is to
encourage others, to uplift them, and it is always said without boasting and
simply in love. I need to absorb God’s love deep inside me infusing every part
of me so that I can honour those around me.
And Love just surpasses
everything else that exists. No greater love has ever been demonstrated than
God’s love for me. And because of His abundant love for me I am always
protected from the arrows that fly at me, and all through that I can always
trust that He has everything in hand, I have a constant hope for my present and
my future and He will never stop loving me and bringing the course of my life
into alignment with His plans and purposes.
I hear God’s voice speaking over
me, the Prophets He has set aside speak encouragement over my life, and I know
they are filled with my Daddy’s love and concern for my life. But those will
change for me as they are fulfilled and as my life changes. But God’s single
constant through my life in His abundant love. And one day I will be shown what
I can only imagine, I will know what now I can only guess and surmise about. On
that final day when Jesus comes to take me home everything will become whole in
a way I can never dream is possible.
Years have passed me by, I first
told Jesus I loved Him when I was 6, and I was only able to understand that He
was my “friend” and I knew there were great stories about everything He
completed in such a short life time. I was fed with small pieces of knowledge
at a level at which I could understand at that time. But as I grew up I was fed
more knowledge, I gained a greater understanding and awareness of who God was
and is and what He had done for me because of His undying grace and love. As I
have grown and matured I have been taught and nurtured in ways that I could
never have understood or coped with a s a child.
On Earth I see so many good and
anointed things, things that can only have come from God’s grace and love, but
I know that this is only a part of what is still to come, and if my life on
Earth finishes tomorrow then for those left behind there is still far more to
come. When He finally takes me home Daddy will show me the realities of what I
can only have hope and faith for, and in, now.
My faith is how I try to build
the foundations of my life. I sometimes make an error or two, but my faith in
Father God comes through. I have a certain and sure hope that He will take me
home in His timing, and on His terms, but I know that He has prepared a place
for me at His right hand. And over all of this every day in all things I find
Father’s love poring through and I ask and pray that His love will become more
evident in my life and become that impact in and on the lives of others
regardless of their faith or lack of hope. God calls me to love everyone, they
may not have a faith or a hope but they can have love and they can receive
love.
That is why the greatest thing I
can be shown and I can show to others is LOVE.
Amen.
