Are You A Tinkling Cymbal??? Or A Sounding Brass???

Do you tell folks that you LOVE them, but never show it???   Your actions speak louder than your words!!! 




Do you say you LOVE GOD, and then mistreat HIS CHILDREN???




1 Corinthians 13:1 (KJV) Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

 

In the verse above, when they use the word, “charity,” they are referring to LOVE!!!




The New Century Version makes this passage so plain!!!  You can be the smartest person in the whole world, but if you do NOT love others, you are really just an old windbag making a lot of racket for no reason!!!!


1 Corinthians 13:1-7 (NCV)

 ¹ I may speak in different languages of people or even angels. But if I do not have love, I am only a noisy bell or a crashing cymbal.

You may have every gift that God allows, but if you don’t understand how to love folks, then you have nothing.  You can give away everything you own, even your own body, but if you don’t have love and compassion, then you have truly done nothing!!!  Without love there is no true understanding of God, because GOD IS LOVE!!! 



² I may have the gift of prophecy. I may understand all the secret things of God and have all knowledge, and I may have faith so great I can move mountains. But even with all these things, if I do not have love, then I am nothing.

³ I may give away everything I have, and I may even give my body as an offering to be burned. But I gain nothing if I do not have love.

If you truly LOVE someone, then you will show it!!!  The following verses tell us how a person who has compassion and real love behaves!!! 


⁴ Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous, it does not brag, and it is not proud.

⁵ Love is not rude, is not selfish, and does not get upset with others. Love does not count up wrongs that have been done.

⁶ Love takes no pleasure in evil but rejoices over the truth.

⁷ Love patiently accepts all things. It always trusts, always hopes, and always endures.




Do you know that TRUE LOVE NEVER DIES???   Even when this old world comes to an end, there will still be LOVE!!!!

1 Corinthians 13:8 (CEV) Love never fails! Everyone who prophesies will stop, and unknown languages will no longer be spoken. All that we know will be forgotten.