Dear
Dad,
Love is the greatest gift of all, yet so many claim to have love or be in love and have ABSOLUTELY no idea what love is. You sent Your son to show us that picture perfect kind of love. When I think of love I would say that first & foremost it is selfless. It gives unconditionally and expects nothing in return. This is shown by Your willingness to give Your only son as a sacrifice for the entire world, even for those today who discredit, hate, and disrespect You. Next, love is trust. Yes these words might as well go hand in hand, for one cannot love without trust nor can they trust without love. Your son trusted that after such a brutal death You would raise him from the dead to live among us. We in return have trusted this truth and embrace the Holy Spirit which lives inside us as a result. When one trusts another, that confident trust lives inside the other person. Once there has been a transfer of trust, both individuals operate at their very best and deems the other person reliable in truth, honor, and ability. Next love has self control. Love understands discipline; the knowing that inner motives and outward dealings must properly connect....... putting forth the best efforts, believing for the best result. Once again Your Son showed discipline as He lived on earth, embodying Your will. He upheld His responsibility to think and act in reverence to Your name and for the wellbeing of those You entrusted to Him (Your people).Love is patient. Time and time again Your Son showed His patience towards others. He was never bombarding, demanding, or easily angered. He approached people at the right time, in such a manner that screamed LOVE!!! You and he are one in the same; You also waited for the appropriate time to send Your Son for us, whose life You knew would have the power to change me thousands of years later. You also patiently wait for us and present new opportunities for us daily. I can go on and on about what love means, but this I know: Whoever has not established a relationship with You are living beneath their privilege of both receiving and giving the true love that You freely provide and instruct for anyone who is willing to accept it!
Love is the greatest gift of all, yet so many claim to have love or be in love and have ABSOLUTELY no idea what love is. You sent Your son to show us that picture perfect kind of love. When I think of love I would say that first & foremost it is selfless. It gives unconditionally and expects nothing in return. This is shown by Your willingness to give Your only son as a sacrifice for the entire world, even for those today who discredit, hate, and disrespect You. Next, love is trust. Yes these words might as well go hand in hand, for one cannot love without trust nor can they trust without love. Your son trusted that after such a brutal death You would raise him from the dead to live among us. We in return have trusted this truth and embrace the Holy Spirit which lives inside us as a result. When one trusts another, that confident trust lives inside the other person. Once there has been a transfer of trust, both individuals operate at their very best and deems the other person reliable in truth, honor, and ability. Next love has self control. Love understands discipline; the knowing that inner motives and outward dealings must properly connect....... putting forth the best efforts, believing for the best result. Once again Your Son showed discipline as He lived on earth, embodying Your will. He upheld His responsibility to think and act in reverence to Your name and for the wellbeing of those You entrusted to Him (Your people).Love is patient. Time and time again Your Son showed His patience towards others. He was never bombarding, demanding, or easily angered. He approached people at the right time, in such a manner that screamed LOVE!!! You and he are one in the same; You also waited for the appropriate time to send Your Son for us, whose life You knew would have the power to change me thousands of years later. You also patiently wait for us and present new opportunities for us daily. I can go on and on about what love means, but this I know: Whoever has not established a relationship with You are living beneath their privilege of both receiving and giving the true love that You freely provide and instruct for anyone who is willing to accept it!
I love you Dad,
~ Kristen
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Word on the Go: 1 Corinthians 13
I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. 3 If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it;[a] but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.
4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.8 Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages[b] and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever!9 Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture!10 But when the time of perfection comes, these partial things will become useless.
11 When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things.12 Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity.[c] All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.
13 Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.
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