Today's Reading September 3

Today is Labor Day in the US, which is translated into most people doing no labor. I hope your day is a good one.
Our morning reading is Proverbs 3 and 4. The Proverbs are that mix of phrases that immediately jump out at you, and others that you must ''chew over'' to get the essence. One of my very favorites is from chapter 3,

5 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
6 In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and he shall direct thy paths.

That's one of those to hang on the wall and keep close to your heart. It will change how you live, it will affect how you live this life.

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This evening's passage is 1st Corinthians chapter 13. This is one of the most beloved passages in all of Paul's letters, the chapter on love. Better and wiser persons than I have commented on this, there are books, sermons, articles aplenty.

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.
3 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 child, 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.