Agape Love

[Gunny]

1COR 13:1 If I make use of the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am like sounding brass, or a loud-tongued bell.

1COR 13:2 And if I have a prophet's power, and have knowledge of all secret things; and if I have all faith, by which mountains may be moved from their place, but have not love, I am nothing.

1COR 13:3 And if I give all my goods to the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it is of no profit to me.

1COR 13:4 Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride;

1COR 13:5 Love's ways are ever fair, it takes no thought for itself; it is not quickly made angry, it takes no account of evil;

1COR 13:6 It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but has joy in what is true;

1COR 13:7 Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things.

1COR 13:8 Though the prophet's word may come to an end, tongues come to nothing, and knowledge have no more value, love has no end.

1COR 13:9 For our knowledge is only in part, and the prophet's word gives only a part of what is true:

1COR 13:10 But when that which is complete is come, then that which is in part will be no longer necessary.

1COR 13:11 When I was a child, I made use of a child's language, I had a child's feelings and a child's thoughts: now that I am a man, I have put away the things of a child.

1COR 13:12 For now we see things in a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now my knowledge is in part; then it will be complete, even as God's knowledge of me.

1COR 13:13 But now we still have faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

 

[GraftMeIn]

Amen! There's nothing better than the Love of God

Jude 1:21
Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

 

[EPHRIAM777]

gunnysgt said


"it is the soldier, not the reporter, who gives us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who gives us the freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who gives us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves under it, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protestor to burn the flag."
- Father Davis Edward O' Brien Srg. USMC


Eph writes...

Hey Sarge..?

Ask Davis next time ya see him..who keeps that soldiers heart beatin while he's doing all those great things he mentioned in that quote...?

 

[Gunny]

What is a vet?

By Father Dennis Edward O'Brien, USMC

Some veterans bear visible signs of their service: a missing limb, a jagged scar, a certain look in the eye. Others may carry the evidence inside them: a pin holding a bone together, a piece of shrapnel in the leg or perhaps another sort of inner steel: the soul's ally forged in the refinery of adversity. Except in parades, however, the men and women who have kept America safe wear no badge or emblem. You can't tell a vet just by looking.

What is a vet?

He is the cop on the beat who spent six months in Saudi Arabia sweating two gallons a day making sure the armored personnel carriers didn't run out of fuel.

He is the barroom loudmouth, dumber than five wooden planks, whose overgrown frat-boy behavior is outweighed a hundred times in the cosmic scales by four hours of exquisite bravery near the38th parallel.

She or he is the nurse who fought against futility and went to sleep sobbing every night for two solid years in Da Nang.

He is the POW who went away one person and came back another or didn't come back AT ALL.

He is the Quantico drill instructor who has never seen combat, but has saved countless lives by turning slouchy, no account rednecks and gang members into Marines, and teaching them to watch each other's backs.

He is the parade riding Legionnaire who pins on his ribbons and medals with a prosthetic hand.

He is the career quartermaster who watches the ribbons and medals pass him by.

He is the three anonymous heroes in The Tomb of the Unknowns, whose presence at the Arlington National Cemetery must forever preserve the memory of all the anonymous heroes whose valor dies unrecognized with them on the battlefield or in the ocean's sunless deep.

He is the old guy bagging groceries at the supermarket-palsied now and aggravatingly slows who helped liberate a Nazi death camp and who wishes all day long that his wife were still alive to hold him when the nightmares come.

He is an ordinary and yet an extraordinary human being, a person who offered some of his life's most vital years in the service of his country, and who sacrificed his ambitions so others would not have to sacrifice theirs.

He is a soldier and a savior and a sword against the darkness, and he is nothing more than the finest, greatest testimony on behalf of the finest, greatest nation ever known.

So remember, each time you see someone who has served our country, just lean over and say "THANK YOU." That's all most people need, and in most cases it will mean more than any medals they could have been awarded or were awarded.

Two little words mean a lot, "THANK YOU."

"It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag."

 

[Gunny]

Yesterday at 01:58 PM EPHRIAM777 said this in Post #3 (http://www.christianforums.com/showthread.php?postid=651104#post651104)

Eph writes...

Hey Sarge..?

Ask Davis next time ya see him..who keeps that soldiers heart beatin while he's doing all those great things he mentioned in that quote...?

I believe Father Dennis Edward O'Brien, USMC knows who keeps the soldiers heart beating.