1 Cor 3:4-12

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 prophesies, 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 woman, 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. 


"Even as I have been fully known." "Even as I have been fully known." As many times as I read this, speak this, believe, live, and know this, I cannot grasp the Father's love for me. I cannot imagine or begin to comprehend the value that he has for me. That when perfect comes, Jesus will take me from the partial, the pieces, the incomplete, and will submerge me into the wholeness of God. 
This morning I read in Acts when Peter heals the beggar.
We know the story, but when I read it this morning, God captivated me and it was like the very first time that I saw God's love. The very first time I believed and knew God's word to be true. The word was made alive and new to me and I felt like the beggar, "walking and leaping and praising God!"
At the gate called Beautiful. :) 
In the message, Peter confirms what is faith in Jesus Christ. "Yes, faith and nothing but faith put this man healed and whole right before your eyes." 


Thank you Jesus for seeking me at the gate called Beautiful, and thank you for saving my life.