{"id":11780,"date":"2021-02-20T20:20:27","date_gmt":"2021-02-20T20:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=11780"},"modified":"2022-02-24T23:34:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T23:34:33","slug":"a-most-excellent-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thescripturecache.com\/?p=11780","title":{"rendered":"A Most Excellent Way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 0<\/p><p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">[<strong>Note: <\/strong>This MS is available in larger font on our <strong>Brief Articles 1<\/strong> page.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Many miraculous powers were distributed among brethren in the first century. However, Paul teaches that there is a power or trait superior to all of these spectacular gifts. It is love (1 Cor. 12:31). Love is the most excellent way (1 Cor. 13:4-8), because:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Love suffereth long. Love makes us patient with others as God is with us. One who loves is slow to bitterness or anger when wronged.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Love is kind. There is a sweetness to the spirit of the loving person. Graciousness and gentleness in word and deed come of love.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Love envieth not. A loving person neither desires nor begrudges what others have. Love makes us rejoice in good fortune for others.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Love vaunteth not itself. The braggart advertises self-love. Christian love is humble, self- effacing.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Love is not puffed up. Even the arrogant despise conceit and arrogance in others. A loving person doesn&#8217;t throw his weight around.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Love doth not behave itself unseemly. Love for others keeps us from being rude and crude. Tasteful words and deeds demonstrate love.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Love seeketh not its own. Love doesn&#8217;t let us dwell only on our rights and what people owe us. A person who is always insisting on his own way and who is always complaining of mistreatment is simply deficient in love.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Love is not provoked. The person who is irritable and has a hair-trigger temper has a love problem. We may call such a person moody; Paul calls him or her unloving.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Love taketh not account of evil. When love controls, we don&#8217;t store up wrongs suffered.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Love rejoiceth not in unrighteousness. When we love, we mourn at ill reports of others.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Love rejoiceth with the truth. Some don&#8217;t want the Truth to prevail or they don&#8217;t want to hear the Truth. Love makes us glad when Truth is proclaimed and especially when it triumphs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Love beareth, believeth, hopeth, endureth all things<\/strong>. Love causes us to keep going in face of insult, to trust in face of doubt, to hope though discouraged and to persevere triumphantly whatever may come.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">[Note: I wrote this article for and it was published in <em>The Edifier, <\/em>weekly bulletin of Pearl Street Church of Christ, Denton, TX, March 19, 1987, of which I was editor.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino, serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Attribution: From <em>thescripturecache.com<\/em>; Dub McClish, owner and administrator.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Views: 0[Note: This MS is available in larger font on our Brief Articles 1 page.] Many miraculous powers were distributed among brethren in the first century. However, Paul teaches that there is a power or trait superior to all of these spectacular gifts. 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