In the hardships of this life, we get to learn love’s song The tune descends from heaven and bids us, “sing along” We get to sing it as we wait with a patient sigh Or when others test our intents, with a kind reply
Do not long to be on stage so others hear us sing Perform loves humble tune in private–to our worthy King Do not boast with trumpet blast, “look what I am giving!" When anger plays its number, learn to be forgiving
There is no melody that can bear, the record of our wrongs Always learn to hope and trust through the saddest songs Love does not delight in evil sung to nasty tune We are a temple of the Lord, not a loud saloon
Love rejoices with the truth in harmonies accord Strain to hear, “love never fails,” in the sweetest chord In the hardships of this life, we get to learn love’s song The tune descends from heaven and bids us, “sing along”
Debbie Furey December 23, 2024
1 Corinthians 13:1-7 – “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. 2 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. 3 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. 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”
1 Corinthians 13:13 – “And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
1 John 4:19 – “We love because he first loved us.”
