Word for the Week

Without Love, I Am Nothing

Week beginning: 24th November, 2024 | By David McIlroy | London

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 (NIV)

How much of your working day could you honestly describe as an act of love? How much of your non-working life is used to express love? If Paul is right, and love is the breath of the Christian life, then we need to take the time to think about what i