Esther 8:1-10:3, 1 Corinthians 12:27-13:13, Psalms 37:1-11, Proverbs 21:23-24
Today is the 20th day of August welcome to the Daily Audio Bible I’m Brian it is a joy to be here with you today to step out of it all, to exhale, to just calm down, come around the Global Campfire, let it all go for a few minutes and let God’s word wash into our hearts and inform our lives, including the decisions and choices that we have to make for the rest of this day. It’s just our time step away and catch our breath and it’s a joy to be here with you today. And today we will conclude the book of Esther. We’re reading from the expanded Bible this week. Esther chapters 8, 9 and 10 today.
Prayer:
Father, we thank you for your word, and as we continue through the letter to the Corinthians, we have encountered some of the most well-known portions of the New Testament. This love chapter that tells us that there are many gifts and you give many gifts to many people and these gifting’s and the weight of our lives, we are irreplaceable, we are all part of a whole, we make up the body and we are all needed and all necessary and we can seek these gifts and we can press in and pursue these things, but we need to understand that it’s not the gift that’s permanent. It all passes away as we continue to be perfected. What does matter is that we love. We can try to exercise all the giftings that we have but if we have not love than it doesn’t matter at all. So, help us to see that Lord as we look at each other’s gifting’s, as we look at our own. The one gift that we all have, the one equalizer, the one thing that we all must do no matter where we are positioned in the body, whether seen or unseen, the one thing that we must all do is love. And Holy Spirit, we can…we can see this, we can understand this, we can even see that if…if…if everyone in the world would begin to operate out of a place of love most of the world’s issues would disappear. We see this and yet living into this is a challenge. And we don’t have to worry about everybody else’s gift and everybody else’s path into love, we have to consider our own. Are we operating in love? Come Holy Spirit and well up from within and permeate that question as we meditate upon it today. We ask this in the name of Jesus. Amen.
Song:
Without Love – Sarah Groves
You can rise in the halls of power
You can speak to the masses
You can heal their disease
You can stand as the man of the hour
You can bring them to their feet
You can bring them to their knees
Without love I have not
Without love, without love
Without love I have not
Without love
You can fall on the blade of the martyr
You can give all your possessions to the poor
You can tell all you’ve seen of the future
Predicting every famine every war
Without love I have not
Without love, without love
Without love I have not
Without love
Love always protects, love always trusts,
Love always hopes the best for us
Love is slow to anger, love isn’t proud
Love never fails, love will never fail us
Without love I have not
Without love, without love
Without love I have not
Without love
Without love I am nothing
Without love I am nothing
Without love I am nothing at all