Anglican Daily Fountain Devotional 18 September 2022 Message for Sunday. Read Daily Fountain Devotional 18 September 2022 for Anglican Communion
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TOPIC: Love Is Essential
TEXT: 1 Corinthians 13:1-13(NKJV)
Daily Fountain Devotional 18 September 2022 MESSAGE
The word charity means love in action. It is not simply an emotion; it is the heart reaching out to others. ‘Charity’ today makes us think of giving away old clothes or making gifts to charitable institutions. These activities can be Christian love in action, but Paul is demanding much more. The word he uses for love is agape, which is love that sacrifices for the good of others.
Notice how he takes up some of the spiritual gifts of I Corinthians12:8-10 and shows their emptiness, aside from love. Tongues without love become mere noise; prophecy without love makes the prophet nothing. This applies to knowledge and faith. Paul is not disdaining these gifts; he simply says that they will achieve nothing unless there is love in the life of the Christian in the exercise of his or her gifts.
Love is the measure of all things. The Corinthian Church used their spiritual gifts for competition and not of love. The church was divided! Preaching without love is just so much noise. Is the situation not same with our present-day church? Jesus must be asking the church of today just as He asked Peter, Do you love me? (John 21:17). We must wake up to love – the greatest of all virtues!
PRAYER: O Lord grant me the grace to live a life of love in Christ Jesus name, Amen.
Anglican Daily Fountain Devotional 18 September 2022 Message. The Church of Nigeria is the Anglican church in Nigeria. It is the second-largest province in the Anglican Communion, as measured by baptized membership, after the Church of England.