{"id":404,"date":"2006-11-08T10:09:44","date_gmt":"2006-11-08T14:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/?p=404"},"modified":"2006-11-08T10:09:44","modified_gmt":"2006-11-08T14:09:44","slug":"extravagently-loving-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drslewis.org\/camille\/2006\/11\/08\/extravagently-loving-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"Extravagently Loving Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"

More from Paul<\/a> that defies the idea that “discipline is everything.” No, in fact, it’s very little. Paul, who knew what the study of rhetoric and the study of law looked like, eloquently states that neither<\/em> is the key:<\/p>\n

If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. 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. 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.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Love never gives up.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Love cares more for others than for self.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Love doesn’t strut,
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Doesn’t have a swelled head,
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Doesn’t force itself on others,
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Isn’t always “me first,”
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Doesn’t fly off the handle,
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Puts up with anything,
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Trusts God always,
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Always looks for the best,
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Never looks back,
\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0But keeps going to the end.<\/p>\n

Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting 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!<\/p>\n

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 extravagantly<\/strong><\/em>. And the best of the three is love.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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