13:1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; [2] 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

13 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.- 1 Corinthians 13:1-13

       It’s one thing to teach others about loving God and people but to walk the walk is another. We who are in ministry get so caught up in doing ministry that we forget to check our hearts. I realized this during the past week that i lost focus of God and my identity in Him. It does not matter how much I know about God if I’m not trusting him and loving him. A man of God must give up all his selfish childish ways if he is going to fulfill the life God is calling him to.  He has to be kind,patient, not cocky,not rude, not irritable, not resentful, and don’t delight in wrongdoing but rejoice with the truth.When things get hard he bears it. He believes in all things will turn out good. He has hope and endures. Like love he never stops living out the marks of love found in the bible.  God does not care what gifts and talents you have if your heart does not love him or others. God is love, and will help his men carry out the call of love. I don’t have this down yet, and know I won’t till heaven but I’m asking Jesus to help me kill my childish ways and step up to the challenge of Love. I pray this for all men

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