Charity never faileth... I need to do better at praying for charity, that I might be filled with this love which is the pure love of Christ. I find it easy to beat myself up a bit when it comes to charity. I have been separated/divorced for 4 years now and it is one of those things that I have a hard time with. I failed there. I am not charity. I am John. I am a man who struggled in a very difficult situation for some time and I did not endure all things. I tried, I tried for a long time. I failed to endure that relationship. I don't know what else to say there. Did I fail my children? I don't know that I can say that I failed them. We have pressed on and created an environment at home that has been much healthier for them. Certainly we have our struggles and life is anything but a breeze. There are times when we do great and there are times when we do not do quite so great.
And charity suffereth long and is kind, and envieth not, and is not puffed up, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil, and rejoiceth not in iniquity but rejoiceth in the truth, beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, if ye have not charity, ye are nothing, for charity never faileth. Wherefore, cleave unto charity, which is the greatest of all, for all things must fail -
But charity is the pure love of Christ, and it endureth forever; and whoso is found possessed of it at the last day, it shall be well with him.
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, pray unto the Father with all the energy of heart, that ye may be filled with this love, which he hath bestowed upon all who are true followers of his Son, Jesus Christ; that ye may become the sons of God, that when he shall appear we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is, that we may have this hope; that we may be purified even as he is pure. Amen.
Moroni 7:45 - 48.
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