The year is coming to a close. Many people greet the new year with resolutions to improve or change a few things in their life. Perhaps things they feel were within their control that didn’t work out, or to succeed this year in an effort that had not met the years end deadline. It’s good to lose weight, or to be more responsible with money. It’s good to advance professionally, drink more water, get those steps in, or get to bed sooner. Life is busy, and considerations such as these do matter. They affect real people in real life.
There is only so much time our efforts are granted. Please consider making the new year an effort to glorify God. If He abides in you, and you in Him, there is only one way to best focus your time this year.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not 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 have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now, we see in a mirror dimly but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
-Justin Carroll