Growing in Love

Here’s this week’s reading:

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.
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 have not love, I am nothing.
If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:1-3

I think we sometimes too easily confuse ‘love’ as spoken in the Bible with love as seen on TV and in romance novels.
Of course, there is nothing wrong with romantic love but there is a difference in the context that Paul uses it in our reading.

Love here is from the Greek word – agapaō.
This word means, love, not arising from feelings but from the desire to care for people and the opportunity to do good.

So, I believe, the challenge is for us to develop the desire to care for others and pray for the opportunity to good things for them.
In our homes, work places and areas of influence, we have the chance to exercise agapaō.

My prayer is that this love will grow true in our lives.

Have a great week.