Love: The Greatest Thing

At the end of a pretty busy day, I checked my personal Inbox and read an email from a dear friend, which was entitled "The Greatest Thing". It turned out to be a devotional, which stemmed from the Scripture "There are three things that will endure - faith, hope, and love - and the greatest of these is love." (1 Cor 13:13 NLT)

From the moment I read the Scripture, I realized that I came across this Scripture earlier this week. When reflecting on that, I also realized that lately I'd become a bit "critical & intolerant" when relating to certain situations. For instance on the job, I'd get pretty upset when dealing with people that handled their duties in an unprofessional manner or with a so-called "don't care-ish" attitude. Whilst reflecting, it started to become evident that the Lord was ministering to me about my "critical & intolerant" attitude for I was reminded that I'm not perfect and certainly had misbehaved or committed a sin and yet His love towards me endures and His mercy is new every day. I even remembered that we're admonished to "hate the sin and not the sinner", to "love our neighbour as we love ourselves"; and inevitably realized that it was time to repent, and pray for His help through His Holy Spirit to recognize the onset of "critical & intolerant" behaviour AND to enable me to defeat this by "deliberatly choosing" to continue to walk in Love despite of the circumstance.

Another valuable lesson learnt. Praise be to God!!!!