I can't believe I'm at the end of the chapter already. Moreover (does anyone use that word anymore?) I can't believe it took me an entire month (almost) to get through a chapter. My guess is that this is why my yearlong commitment to read through the Bible in the said amount of time is NOT GOING WELL. It's all I can do to get through the daily portions. I get little out of it. But reading 13 verses in 30 days would take me...a long time...to make it through the whole Bible.
The last verse of the chapter...another famous one. "And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." Just finished days of thinking about all the things that won't stick around forever. And now I have a reminder of the things that were here, are here, and will be here for all of time. And that list can be narrowed down to three words. Faith, hope, and love.
Earlier tonight I was watching the best of Jeff and Sheri Easter on TV. (That would be a new Gaither video, for those of you not familiar.) Sheri wrote a song that I absolutely love, and it's called "She Loved." Makes me cry every time I hear it. The idea of the song is to get you to think about what you'd want others to remember about you when you're gone. Sheri said when she was making her mental list of such things, every item began with "She loved." It boils down to love.
Faith, hope, and love. If you have those but don't have anything else...you're still okay. Because when all is said and done - if you have faith and live in hope and act on love - you're set.
I was just looking at this study note in my Life Application Bible, and it says, "Faith is the foundation and content of God's message; hope is the attitude and focus; love is the action."
What a perfect way to round out the last three days of this experiment! Three days, and three of the greatest things. These days will be my conclusion.
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