There are things in life you kind of count on to just be there. You pick up a fork and eat. You pick up a pencil and write. Those are the basics. Those are the things that everyone should know. I mean some may not know how to write, I get that. And there are cultures where a fork may be foreign. But you get my overall meaning.

1 Corinthians 13:8-13 8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. 13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

I don’t always delve deep in the scripture God gives me when I share it with you. I tend to like to cut to the core, perhaps in a round about way at times, but the core eventually. This is Sunday and on Sundays I get a little more into it.

A lot of you have heard those first three words “Love never fails”. The love here the Apostle Paul speaks of is something God gives us that does not go away in comparison to the gifts given in the following verse.

A lot of people have this idea of what prophecy means. Some like to always say it means to predict the future, but it also means that you can to “break forth under sudden impulse in lofty discourse or praise of the divine counsels, under like prompting, to teach, refute, reprove, admonish, comfort others”. Basically having this knowledge to be able to share God’s word in a powerful, as it were. That can go away, but God’s gift of Love with not.

Speaking in tongues. You know, a lot of people misunderstand this one. It’s not speaking in tongues if someone present cannot understand you. Speaking in tongues is not some nonsensical language. When the disciples spoke in tongues there were people there from other nations that understood them. But that ability can disappear, but the gift of love from God will not.

I think we all know knowledge can be lost in many ways. I for one suffered a concussion that took my memory and quite a bit of knowledge of certain areas. Throw math at me and I will look at you in confusion. Love never left me.

The rest of the passage today continues on to show how things change over time and go away. We end up with only faith, hope and love. People can lose two of those things. But God gives us love. You can even give up a lot of things but you can’t give up the love someone has for you. They still have it for you.

I lost a lot when I suffered my concussion. But I still loved my son. And I loved God. And the encouragement is . . . God doesn’t stop loving me.

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