If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.  If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.   If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:1 – 3

LOVE.  Do I have it?  Without it life is empty, futile, according to the word of God.  I sit here this morning wondering if I have the kind of love that the Spirit of the Lord is talking about.

To be sure, I have many feelings about people, maybe even about spiritual things.  Those feelings come and go.  Is this the love that Paul is talking about?

Is it right for me to love some and simply ignore another?  Come to think of it, I never thought much about this. For Paul, it is at the very center of our walk with God so I need to stop and ask the simple question, “Do have the love God is speaking of?”

I have no simple answer.  But I do hear God speaking on the matter and want to learn.  Oh, God, grant me the grace to love like you love!