OUR DAILY BREAD : LOVING OUR GROWN-UP CHILDREN

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June 10
Tuesday


LOVING OUR
GROWN-UP
CHILDREN

READ:
1 Corinthians 13
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Now abide faith, hope,
love, these three; but
the greatest of these is
love. __1 Cor. 13:13
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Comedian Henny Youngman used to say, "I've got two wonderful children--and two out of five isn't bad."

When children reach adulthood, most parents have an opinion about how their offspring have "turned out." Some are proud of everything their kids have done, while other parents express misgivings or disappointment about the choices their children have made. How can we continue a positive parenting role after the birds have left our nest?

In 1 Corinthians 13, often called "the love chapter" of the Bible, Paul writes that the greatest gifts of speaking, understanding, and sacrificial service are worthless without love (vv.1-3). Love itself is the foundation of winsome behavior, and its influence never ends. "Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails" (vv. 4-8).

When our children no longer seek our advice, they still value our love. In every stage of parenting, it's not only what we say but what we do that counts. __david McCasland
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````````````````````May God in mercy grant to us````````````````
```````````````````A home where Christ holds sway,``````````````
````````````````Where peace and joy from heaven above``````````
````````````````````Abide from day to day. __Crane``````````````
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A parent's love never ends.

***************Today's Bible Reading __ 1 Corinthians 13***********

1 Though I speak with the
tongues of men and of
angels, but have not love, I
have become sounding brass
or a clanging cymbal. 2 And
though I have the gift of
prophecy, and understand all
mysteries and all knowledge,
and though I have all faith,
so that I could remove
mountains, but have not love,
I am nothing. 5 And though I
bestow all my goods to feed
the poor, and though I give
my body to be burned, but
have not love, it profits me
nothing.

4 Love suffers long and is
kind; love does not envy;
love does not parade itself, is
not puffed up; 5 does not
behave rudely, does not seek
its own, is not provoked,
thinks no evil; 6 does not
rejoice in iniquity, but
rejoices in the truth; 7 bears
all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all
things.

8 Love never fails. But
whether there are prophecies,
they will fail; whether there
are tongues, they will cease;
whether there is knowledge,
it will vanish away. 9 For we
know in part and we
prophesy in part. 10 But when
that which is perfect has
come, then that which is in
part will be done away.

11 When I was a child, I
spoke as a chid, I understood
as a child, I thought as a
child; but when I became a
man, I put away childish
things. 12 For now we see in a
mirror, dimly, but then face
to face. Now I know in part,
but then I shall know just as I
also am known.

13 And now abide faith,
hope, love, these three; but
the greatest of these is love.

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Of the several Greek words that are translated "love" in the New
Testament, the one used here is agape. It speaks of the highest form
of love, a love that mirrors the self-sacrificial love of our heavenly
Father. __Bill Crowder