Sorry that I didn’t post on day five, I’ll post twice today to make up for it! Yesterday, I gathered some awesome insight into 1 Cor 13 though. I was afraid to go there, because it’s the much-used “love chapter,” and I wanted something new. I only made it through the first verse.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.

I have met so many people who are interesting or attention grabbing for one reason or another: thier sense of humor, athleticism, good looks, etc. But many of them, once you start to know them, become annoying for those same reasons: if their world revolves around that trait, and they do not have love, they become very annoying.

Like a gong or a cymbal, the first “clash” may be exciting, but no one wants to sit next to a clanging gong all day long. It’s tiresome.

If we live without love, we will be like that: always attracting attention, but then always driving people away (or at least keeping them at a comfortable distance). Drop any pretenses you may have today, and love someone. See what happens.