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Today's Reading: 1 Corinthians 13
Please read 1 Corinthians 13 and listen to what the Lord Jesus Christ would like to tell you before reading my Spiritual Journal below. If you would like to learn a simple and good way of Daily Devotion method you may click this link directly for the method:Subject Shifting Devotion.pdf.
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What I heard from Jesus today is: Why we can't love?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH-snsXw1as
- Message: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1 Corinthians 13&version=MSG
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- ESV: http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1 Corinthians 13&version=ESV
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 1 Corinthians 13: 1
This chapter is perhaps one of the most favourite chapters in the Bible and is being called "The Chapter of Love". Michelle and I read the whole chapter in our wedding July 13, 1985 at our home parish, Holy Trinity Church Hong Kong(now Holy Trinity Cathedral). This is the most read reading for wedding. And yet, today I got a different message from what I used to think about this chapter.
What I got is that this is a chapter to challenge us why we can't love and not how we can love. Paul wanted to give a clear and firm message to the Christians in Corinth to cure their self-centerness and pride. They got all kinds of powerful spiritual gifts but they could not love. They were impatient, not kind, always envy, boast, proud, rude, self-seeking, easily angered, kept all kinds of record of wrongs, delighted in evil, no protection, no trust, no hope and no perseverance. How could that be? Well, that was what was happening in that Church.
Please make a spiritual check-up today to see how you are doing as a Christian according to this chapter!
Dear Lord Jesus,
Help us to be able to love and to show the fruit of love in our daily living. In Jesus name I pray. Amen.
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The sermon "The power is from within" by Rev. Eric Liddell(Chariots of Fire)
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