My previous blog detailed a declaration written about my season of singleness. This declaration below is a different type, one written directly from scripture. Someone gave me this idea and after reading this over myself, I have seen very real changes in my thoughts and actions. (Especially the “keeping no record of wrongs” part…I have actually found myself forgetting what someone did recently that evoked a negative emotion from me! I remember that they frustrated me but couldn’t remember why. Did you know it is impossible to be frustrated at someone if you don’t remember the reason they frustrated you to begin with?!)
2 Corinthians 12: 9-10 He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. With Christ in me, I lack nothing. 1 John 4.8 says God is love. So this declaration below is an expression of these truths.
1 Corinthians 13, written as a declaration
If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
I am patient, I am kind. I do not envy, I do not boast, I am not proud. I do not dishonor others, I am not self-seeking, I am not easily angered, I keeps no record of wrongs.I do not delight in evil but rejoice with the truth.I always protect, always trust, always hope, always persevere.
Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For I know in part and I prophesy in part,but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a woman, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now I see only a reflection as in a mirror; then I shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
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