1 Corinthians 13:7a Love bears all things,

I knew a 19 year old who lost his battle with cancer. When he got the final news that the surgery removing his arm and the chemo had not turned the tide on his cancer, he lost hope for himself.

He spent his last days that he could walk returning to the hospital treatment center encouraging the cancer patients there not to give up just because he lost his battle. Such love had he for his fellow patients than he could not allow his battle to discourage others.

Only the love of God working inside a person could hold up under that kind of news.

A dear friend called to check and see if I was OK in a flood that had him stranded on his roof waiting for a rescue. He acted as if all was fine. Only the love of God working inside a person acts like that.

Countless times we go to a hospital to comfort a patient only to be comforted by them. Only the love of God working inside a person acts like that.

The love of God does not fade or change just because we go thru tough times.

I complain because the internet goes down, not because I need it, but because I cannot send out my devotionals to serve God. It’s not the end of the world, even if I make it sound horrible.

In the end it is about the condition of your heart and whether you allow your circumstances to overshadow the love that resides there.

John 16:33 These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.

1 Corinthians 13:6b but rejoiceth in the truth;

Do you like being right? Don’t you take pleasure in knowing the truth of a matter? I know I try to be right about those things I believe. It is no fun being wrong.

Do you take pleasure in proving someone wrong? Be honest. Are you quick to correct? Do you hold your tongue and wait to see if perhaps that person misspoke and auto corrects himself? Even if they do not, do you talk to them in private about what you heard?

What if I were to tell you that this opening verse has nothing to do with what I just said?

John 14:6b I am the way, the truth, and the life:

Jesus is Truth.

Rejoice being in Christ.

What we call truth is really perception. We take what we sense and collect them into a device called a brain. Witnesses have been proven wrong in what they perceived to be a crime. Memory is a fallible commodity. Recollection is an imperfect science. Even if you study an issue or item to exhaust all possible known evidence, there is the unknown, which exists without observation.

But truth is a person, not just any person, but God Himself, infallible, perfect and pure.

To know a truth as revealed by God is wondrous, pure joy. But only for that moment, and then we store it away in that most imperfect of storage containers, the brain.

1 Corinthians 8:2 And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.

And that’s the truth. (Jesus is the Word)