Ah, yes. The wedding chapter. Love is. . . Love is not. . . Rings please. Cue the wedding march. Tissues all around.
The thirteenth chapter of 1 Corinthians has been the basis for countless wedding sermons, and rightly so. If each marriage were based on and grew in the maxims outlined in 1Corin. 13, fights would be avoided, dishes would remain unbroken, and many attorneys would be looking for other lines of work.
But 1 Corin. 13 should not be reserved for weddings and married couples. What if the principals were applied to parenting? The church? The workplace? The halls of Congress?
Imagine an office where each person was patient, kind. Politicians who were not envious, proud, and boastful. How different churches would look if their members were not self-seeking, easily angered, and kept no record of wrongs.
1Corinthians 13 must not be left at the marriage alter. Our prayer should be to show this type of love not just to our family, but to all those we come in contact each day. We should pray that our leaders would be lead by the Holy Spirit into this type of love.
In 1965, Jackie DeShannon recorded and released a song, "What the World Needs Now is Love". I would agree with that if it were the 1 Corinthians 13 love.
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