Kingdom Revelator Australia – Issue 94
In St Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, he says, “If I speak in the tongues of humans and of angels but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries and all knowledge and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains but do not have love, I am nothing… Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not
irritable; it keeps no record of wrongs; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends” (1 Corinthians 13:1-8).
A few lines from the remarkable verses written on the wall of Mother Teresa’s home for children in Kolkota, India, reads like this – “People are often unreasonable, illogical, and self-centred. Forgive them anyway. If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Be kind anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow. Do good anyway. Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough. Give the best you’ve got anyway. You see, in the final analysis it is between you and God; it was never between you and them anyway.”
Irrespective of how people perceive or treat us, we as Christians are called to love and do good. St Paul reminds us, “Whatever task you must do, work as if your soul depends on it, as for the Lord and not for humans, since you know that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward; you serve the Lord Christ.” (Colossians 3:23-24)