God is Love

I may be able to speak the languages of human beings and even of angels, but if I do not have the Father, my speech is no more than a noisy gong or a clanging bell. I may have the gift of inspired preaching; I may have all knowledge and understand all secrets; I may have all the faith needed to move mountains---but if I do not have the Father, I am nothing. I may give away everything I have, and even give up my body to be burned ---but if I do not have the Father, this does me no good. The Father is patient and kind; He is not jealous or conceited or proud; He is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable; God does not keep a record of wrongs; He is not happy with evil, but is happy with Truth. The Father never gives up; and His faith, hope, and patience never fail. God is eternal.

There are inspired messages, but they are temporary; there are gifts of speaking in strange tongues, but they will cease; there is knowledge, but it will pass. For
our gifts of knowledge and of inspired messages are only partial; but when what is perfect comes, then what is partial will disappear. When I was a child, my speech, feelings, and thinking were all those of a child; now that I am an adult, I have no more use for childish ways. What we see now is like a dim image in a mirror; then we shall see face-to-face. What I know now is only partial; then it will be complete---as complete as God's knowledge of me. Meanwhile these three remain: faith, hope, and God; and the greatest of these… is the Father.
(1Co 13:1-13)

Wanneer die Gees van God die eerste keer in Sy volheid in jou instroom, het jy die Liefde. Dit is lekker om te weet dat geen, maar geen effort van ons kant nodig is om sogenaamde liefde op te toor nie. Dis nie jou liefde nie, dit is Liefde in jou wat jou bekragtig. Geloof is `n gawe van Liefde, maar dit is Liefde in jou wat hierdie gawe aan jou geskenk het (Ef 2:8). Moenie die wa voor die perd inspan nie. Laat Liefde deur jou werk om die gawe van geloof natuurlik te laat opereer. Dis eintlik baie prakties. Verlustig jou in Liefde, en Liefde (God) se geloof sal natuurlik begin vloei soos elektrisiteit na die gloeilamp die oomblik as die skakelaar aangesit word. Die skakelaar is die saamstem. Liefde is die geleier vir die geloof. Die gloeilamp wat skyn is die heerlike manifistasie.

Gal 5:6 Want in Christus Jesus het nòg die besnydenis nòg die onbesnedenheid enige krag, maar die geloof wat deur die liefde werk.

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