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- From: ramsey@fieldofdreams.npirs.purdue.edu (Ed Ramsey)
- Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian
- Subject: Love in the Home
- Message-ID: <Nov.17.03.28.12.1992.26387@geneva.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 08:28:12 GMT
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- This was given to me during a bible study, and I wanted to share
- it with the group. You are free to speculate as to *why* it was given
- to me :-).
-
-
- LOVE IN THE HOME
- ----------------
- (A Paraphrase of First Corinthians Chapter Thirteen)
-
-
- Though in the glamour of the public eye I sway the emotions of
- man by oratory, or by my silver singing, or by my skillful playing,
- and then go home and gripe because supper is late, or because my
- clothes weren't made to suit me, I am become as sounding brass or a
- tinkling cymbal.
-
- And though I am able to impress others with my vast knowledge
- of the deep things of the Word of God, and though I am able to
- accomplish mighty things through faith so that I become famous among
- men as a remover of mountains, and have not the love that reads the
- deep longings of the hearts around the family circle, and removes the
- barriers that grow up in shy and tender hearts, I am nothing.
-
- And though in the glamour of the public praise I bestow all my
- goods to feed the poor, and though I win the name and fame of a martyr
- by giving my body to be burned, and yet close up like a clam at home,
- or behave like a snapping turtle, knowing nothing of the glory of
- giving myself in unstinted, self-denying service to those nearest and
- dearest, it profiteth me nothing.
-
- Love is not impatient, but kind; love knows no jealousy; love
- makes no parade; gives itself no airs. Love is not rude; seeks not her
- own; nor fights for her own rights; is not resentful; does not imagine
- that others are plotting evil against her. Love does not brood over
- wrongs; does not exult over the mistakes of others; but is truly
- gladdened by goodness.
-
- Love is the acid test of the truly yielded live, for in all
- other phases of Christian service there is a certain glamour; but in
- the home one is confronted with the bare facts of life, stripped of
- all glamour. The home is given to help every Christian "not to think
- more highly of himself than he ought to think." And it is in the home
- that we have the privilege of demonstrating that the Christian life is
- "faith which worketh by love."
-
- -- author unknown
-
-
- -Ed
-
- Ed Ramsey ramsey@ceris.purdue.edu 317/494-0442 FAX/494-9727
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- Ed Ramsey ramsey@ceris.purdue.edu 317/494-0442 FAX/494-9727
- CERIS (Center for Environmental and Regulatory Information Systems)
- Network Services Manager/UNIX Systems Administrator
-