Good morning. I hope all
is well with you. This morning I think we will just let the Scripture speak for
itself. It's probably not your favorite version though. If I speak with the
tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong
or a clanging symbol. And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all
mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove
mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions
to feed the poor, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but do not have love,
it profits me nothing. Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love
does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek
its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not
rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things,
believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails;
but if there are gifts of prophecy, they will be done away; if there are
tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away. For we
know in part, and we prophesy in part; but when the perfect comes, the partial
will be done away. When I was a child, I used to speak as a child, think as a
child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.
For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face-to-face; now I know in part,
but then I shall know fully as I also have been fully known. But now abide
faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. Father thank
You for the reader. Help him/her to experience Your love in all of its aspects,
and to show that love to others.
When considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, since even the fast was already over, Paul began to admonish them to not continue, because he perceived that not only would there be a loss of the cargo but also of their lives.
Good morning. When it was decided that we would sail for Italy, they proceeded to deliver Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion. Notice that “we“ returns. Luke has not been mentioned during the entire two years that Paul was at Caesarea. I guess it is safe to assume that he was in the area during this time. We will leave out the names of a bunch of places where they passed. They had sailed for a good many days and began to have trouble with the wind. This was a warning of what was about to happen. When considerable time had passed and the voyage was now dangerous, since even the fast (Day of Atonement) was already over, Paul began to admonish them to not continue, because he perceived that not only would there be a loss of the cargo but also of their lives. The centurion was more persuaded by the pilot and the captain of the ship than by what was being said by Paul. They did not want to get stuck for the winter in the port where they were located. They actually were only g...
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