Be on guard.
Stand firm in the faith.
Be courageous.
Be strong.
And do everything with love.
1 Corinthians 16:13-14
Blessings of Courage
Monthly Archives: April 2017
Blessings of Enthusiasm
…be strong and immovable.
Always work enthusiastically for the Lord,
for you know that nothing you do for the Lord
is ever useless.
1 Corinthians 15:58
Blessings of Coming Transformation
…We will not all die,
but we will all be transformed!
It will happen in a moment,
in the blink of an eye,
when the last trumpet is blown.
For when the trumpet sounds,
those who have died will be raised to live forever.
And we who are living will also be transformed.
1 Corinthians 15:51-52
Blessings of Death’s Destruction
And the last enemy to be destroyed
is death.
1 Corinthians 15:26
Blessings of Knowing Jesus
The Lord himself will come down from heaven,
with a loud command,
with the voice of the archangel
and with the trumpet call of God,
and the dead in Christ will rise first.
After that,
we who are still alive and are left
will be caught up together with them in the clouds
to meet the Lord in the air.
And so we will be with the Lord forever.
1 Thessalonians 4:16-17
Blessings of a Great Harvest
…if Christ has not been raised,
then your faith is useless
and you are still guilty of your sins.
And if our hope in Christ is only for this life,
we are more to be pitied than anyone in the world.
But in fact,
Christ has been raised from the dead.
He is the first of a great harvest of all who have died.
1 Corinthians 15:17, 19-20
Blessings Of Reading & Believing The Scriptures
…Christ died for our sins,
just as the Scriptures said.
He was buried,
and he was raised from the dead on the third day,
just as the Scriptures said.
He was seen by Peter
and then by the Twelve.
After that,
he was seen by more than 500 of his followers at one time…
1 Corinthians 15:3-6
Blessings of Coming Clarity
Now we see things imperfectly,
like puzzling reflections in a mirror,
but then we will see everything with perfect clarity.
All that I know now is partial and incomplete,
but then I will know everything completely,
just as God now knows me completely.
1 Corinthians 13:12
Blessings of Not Keeping Score
Love is patient and kind.
Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude.
It does not demand its own way.
It is not irritable,
and it keeps no record of being wronged.
It does not rejoice about injustice
but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.
Love never gives up,
never loses faith,
is always hopeful,
and endures through every circumstance.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Blessings of Loving Others
If I could speak all the languages
of earth and of angels,
but didn’t love others,
I would only be a noisy gong
or a clanging cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:1
