Be Still And Know

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 I have no doubt that we all aim to be loving people. So I wonder how accurately this list of love’s attributes describes you. I suspect that the truth is that we all find this list somewhat painful. Yes, we would love to be like this, but then things happen. We get tired; we feel frustrated; people annoy us and we end up being anything but loving. What we need to realise is that the perfect love that is being described here is a picture of God himself. There is no way in which we are going to be able to love like this without God’s help. We need the Holy Spirit to fill us and to give us the strength to be loving in every situation. The Greek word for love that is used in this passage is agape. It is the kind of love that keeps loving whatever happens. This is the love that God has for us. He loves us because he loves us and will keep on loving us whatever we do. It was the love that the father had in the parable of the prodigal son (Luke 15:11-32). The son had treated his father s