We really need to fully accept FATHER’S Word as being totally true, accurate, and empowering… then walk in It. As we mature, we will become confident of FATHER’S Love for us and realize Its unconditional nature.
GOD is Love! Knowing this reality, contemplate the following chapter.
Paul wrote by The Holy Spirit in 1st Corinthians chapter 13:
1 If I were to speak with eloquence in earth’s many languages, and in the Heavenly tongues of angels, yet I didn’t express myself with GOD’S Character (Love), my words would be reduced to the hollow sound of nothing more than a clanging cymbal.
2 And if I were to have the gift of prophecy with a profound understanding of God’s hidden secrets, and if I possessed unending supernatural knowledge, and if I had the greatest gift of faith that could move mountains, but have never learned to walk by The Holy Spirit (Love), then I am nothing.
3 And if I were to be so generous as to give away everything I owned to feed the poor, and to offer my body to be burned as a martyr, without the pure motive of My Heavenly Father (Love), I would gain nothing of value.
4 GOD (Love) is large and incredibly patient. GOD (Love) is gentle and consistently kind to all. A mature Son (Love) refuses to be jealous when blessing comes to someone else. A mature Son (Love) does not brag about his achievements nor inflate his own importance.
5 GOD (Love) does not traffic in shame and disrespect, nor selfishly seek its own honor. GOD (Love) is not easily irritated or quick to take offense.
6 GOD (Love) joyfully celebrates honesty and finds no delight in what is wrong.
7 GOD (Love) is a safe place of shelter, for HE never stops believing the best for others. GOD (Love) never takes failure as defeat, for HE never gives up.
8 GOD (Love) never stops loving. HE extends beyond the gift of prophecy, which eventually fades away. HE is more enduring than tongues, which will one day fall silent. GOD (Love) remains long after words of knowledge are forgotten.
9 Our present knowledge and our prophecies are but partial,
10 but when GOD’S (love’s) perfection arrives, the partial will fade away.
11 When I was a child, I spoke about childish matters, for I saw things like a child and reasoned like a child. But the day came when I matured, and I set aside my childish ways.
12 For now we see but a faint reflection of riddles and mysteries as though reflected in a mirror, but one day we will see face-to-face. My understanding is incomplete now, but one day I will understand everything, just as everything about me has been fully understood.
13 Until then, there are three things that remain: faith, hope, and GOD (Love)—yet GOD (Love) surpasses them all. So above all else, let GOD (Love) be the beautiful prize for which you run.
Jesus spoke in Matthew chapter 7:
7“Ask, and the gift is yours. Seek, and you’ll discover. Knock, and the door will be opened for you. 8 For every persistent one will get what he asks for. Every persistent seeker will discover what he longs for. And everyone who knocks persistently will one day find an open door. “
The above passage expects fulfillment in all three aspects: ask or demand, seek with the expectation of finding, and knock with the expectation of the door opening, Be assured, GOD Who is Love will respond.