Precious Child

I realize that the little stories on the kids leave out the most precious moments. The hugs and kisses you get. The times they snuggle up to just spend time with you. The little acts of kindness where they give each other hugs when one gets hurt, or makes special cards or letters or art for each other. The giving or sharing of toys or clothes or food so that the other may have.

And just so precious is their moms and dads. How blessed is the mother and father who puts their family first and give their family a true home. That teach their children to love. That teach their children to respect, honor and love their God. 1Corinthians 13 gives us a measure of just how important love is. Perhaps one of the most difficult mountains in life is the addictions that are constantly enticing each and every one of us. That one could spend all energies and time pursuing empty desires. How many people have been trapped and looked back and realized that right under their nose, they lost the most precious gift they had? Satan is deceptive, keep up your guard.

1 Corinthians 13 1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, it profits me nothing.

4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.