GPS for the week of January 26th, 2025
“Love Never Ends”
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This week we are confronted with the power and wisdom of 1
Corinthians 13. It speaks of the deep love of God for every
human soul. We may rejoice in his forgiveness and care for us,
even in our awkward and sinful lives. This is the good news of our
Lord Jesus that will breathe life into us. We can start fresh every
morning and look for the ways God gives us to love others.
Thanks be to God!
Dear Lord, thank you for your great love. Help us each day to
take time to rejoice in your love and forgiveness and to be
ready to love others as you lead us. Amen.
Monday 1.27 “Love is patient; love is kind.”
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
“If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have
love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have
prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all
knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but
do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions,
and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have
love, I gain nothing. Love is patient; love is kind; love is not
envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its
own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in
wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes
all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” We may quietly
rejoice in the patient love of God and leave behind our noisy
attempts to show power and prestige in the world.
Tuesday 1.28 “The greatest of these is love.”
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
“Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an
end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come
to an end. For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in
part; but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an
end. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child,
I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to
childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will
see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully,
even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love
abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.” God will
never abandon us. We may join in learning to love as he does.
Wednesday 1.29 “For you shall go to all to whom I send you.”
Jeremiah 1:4-10
“Now the word of the Lord came to me saying, ‘Before I formed
you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I
consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.’ Then I
said, ‘Ah, Lord God! Truly I do not know how to speak, for I am
only a boy.’ But the Lord said to me, ‘Do not say, “I am only a
boy”; for you shall go to all to whom I send you, and you shall
speak whatever I command you. Do not be afraid of them, for I
am with you to deliver you, says the Lord.’ Then the Lord put out
his hand and touched my mouth; and the Lord said to me, ‘Now I
have put my words in your mouth. See, today I appoint you over
nations and over kingdoms, to pluck up and to pull down, to
destroy and to overthrow, to build and to plant.’” Jeremiah humbly
confessed his fears to God. God sent him to speak powerful
words among all kinds of people.
Thursday 1.30 “For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust.”
Psalm 71
“In you, O Lord, I take refuge; let me never be put to shame. In
your righteousness deliver me and rescue me; incline your ear to
me and save me. Be to me a rock of refuge, a strong fortress, to
save me, for you are my rock and my fortress. Rescue me, O my
God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and
cruel. For you, O Lord, are my hope, my trust, O Lord, from my
youth. Upon you I have leaned from my birth; it was you who took
me from my mother’s womb. My praise is continually of you.”
God’s righteous power will protect and guide us as we take refuge
in him.
Friday 1.31 “But he passed through the midst of them
and went on his way.”
Luke 4:21-30
“Then he began to say to them, ‘Today this scripture has been
fulfilled in your hearing.’ All spoke well of him and were amazed
at the gracious words that came from his mouth. They said, ‘Is
not this Joseph’s son?’ He said to them, ‘Doubtless you will quote
to me this proverb, “Doctor, cure yourself!” And you will say, “Do
here also in your home town the things that we have heard you
did at Capernaum.”’” The people in Jesus’ home town of
Nazareth were touched by his words but still wanted him to
demonstrate his power to perform miracles among them.
Saturday 2.1 “But he passed through the midst of them
and went on his way.”
Luke 4:21-30
“And he said, ‘Truly I tell you, no prophet is accepted in the
prophet’s home town. But the truth is, there were many widows in
Israel in the time of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up for three
years and six months, and there was a severe famine over all the
land; yet Elijah was sent to none of them except to a widow at
Zarephath in Sidon. There were also many lepers in Israel in the
time of the prophet Elisha, and none of them was cleansed except
Naaman the Syrian.’ When they heard this, all in the synagogue
were filled with rage. They got up, drove him out of the town, and
led him to the brow of the hill on which their town was built, so that
they might hurl him off the cliff. But he passed through the midst
of them and went on his way.” The people became enraged when
Jesus refused to work miracles among them. They tried to kill
him, but he mercifully and quietly walked away.