IF I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have
not love, I am only a noisy gong or a
clanging cymbal.
And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all the secret truths and mysteries
and possess all knowledge, and if I have faith so that I
can remove mountains, but have not love (God's love in me) I am nothing.
Even if I dole out all that I have food, and
if I surrender my body to be burned or in order that I may glory, but
have not love (God's love in me), I gain nothing.
Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor
boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not
display itself haughtily.
It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude
(unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly. Love (God's love in us) does
not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not
self-seeking; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no
account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered
wrong].
It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth prevail.
Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to
believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all
circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening].
Love never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an
end]. As for prophecy ( the gift of interpreting the divine will and
purpose), it will be fulfilled and pass away; as for tongues, they will
be destroyed and cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away [it will
lose its value and be superseded by truth].
For our knowledge is fragmentary (incomplete and imperfect), and our
prophecy (our teaching) is fragmentary (incomplete and imperfect).
But when the complete and perfect (total) comes, the incomplete and
imperfect will vanish away (become antiquated, void, and superseded).
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I
reasoned like a child; now that I have become a man, I am done with
childish ways and have put them aside.
For now we are looking in a mirror that gives only a dim (blurred)
reflection [of reality as in a riddle or enigma], but then [when
perfection comes] we shall see in reality and face to face! Now I know
in part (imperfectly), but then I shall know and understand fully and
clearly, even in the same manner as I have been fully and clearly known
and understood [ by God].
And so faith, hope, love abide [faith--conviction and belief respecting
man's relation to God and divine things; hope--joyful and confident
expectation of eternal salvation; love--true affection for God and man,
growing out of God's love for and in us], these three; but the greatest
of these is love.
Saat merenungkan perikop ini dalam sebulan ini, entah kenapa ada banyak hal yg Tuhan bukakan.
Dan Tuhan sedangkan mengajarkan arti kasih yang sebenarnya..
Bukan dari penampilan, bukan dari apa yang aku punya, bukan serohani saya, tapi semua itu keluar dari hati, respon hati dan buah2 yg keluar karena KASIH itu..
Iman dan pengharapan memang penting, tp yang terbesar dan paling penting adalah KASIH
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