LOVE...LOVE...LOVE

Ayat ini adalah bekalku sebelum aku masuk ke dunia kerja. Diingetin sama Tuhan kalo segala sesuatu nggak ada artinya TANPA KASIH. Mungkin ntar aku bisa kerja en hasilin banyak duit, bisa beli apa aja yang aku mau, bisa bawa keluargaku pergi ke luar negeri. Tapi kalo aku kehilangan kasih (ke Tuhan terutama, en juga kasih terhadap sesame alias jadi selfish), semua jadi nggak berguna. Oh, semoga hatiku nggak pernah diubahkan oleh jabatan, uang, maupun prestasi. Semoga hatiku selalu dipenuhi oleh kasih Kristus.

The Way of Love

1 If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.

2 If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump”, and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing.

3 If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.

4 Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn’t want what if doesn’t have.

5 Love doesn’t strut, doesn’t have a swelled head, doesn’t force itself on others, isn’t always “me first”,

6 doesn’t fly off the handle, doesn’t keep score of the sins of others, doesn’t revel when others grovel,

7 takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, puts up with anything, trust God always, always looks for the best, never looks back, but keeps going to the end.

8 Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit.

9 We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete.

10 But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.

11 When I was an infant at my mother’s breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.

12 We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re aquinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!

13 But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extragantly. And the best of the three is love.

July 17, 2013