A Fine Recipe of Love, Spinach, and Music

• 1 Corinthians 13:1-3: [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.
  
  If we speak languages for the sake of the gospel, if we understand all things, if we have great faith, if we give everything away, if we die for the sake of the gospel--if we do ANYTHING good but do not have love, it is meaningless. Love is to be the over-riding motive for all we do. By God's grace and mercy, through prayer with faith, we can have this become our motive. If we allow Christ to live in us, we will reach that goal, a challenge for days ahead!
  
  If the greatest thing is love (1 Corinthians 13:13^a), we should become love. It should define us. I would even dare to say that from love through Christ comes all other good things. Let us be and do love. 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 simply states what love is and is not: [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.
  
  ^a = 1 Corinthians 13:13: And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
  
  Now, here is an example of where we can do the above--where we can love. It was a note to myself. (Actually, many of my posts are notes to myself. =P Anyhow, read on):
  
  My father overlooked one of my corrections on a physics test, so more of my time was consumed trying to find an error that didn't exist, and his time was wasted going over more than what was necessary. In the process, both of us became angry at one another. We should learn from this that everyone makes mistakes so we should be Christ-like—forgiving, understanding, gracious, patient, kind—and press on, knowing that everything is passing and does hold fast. Essentially, we must love.
  
  
• There's this really great spinach smoothie my mom makes with the Vitamix. Unfortunately, I don't have the recipe currently. If you are curious, let me know, and I'll try to get it to you. (If you aren't curious, too bad. I'll probably post it later anyway.)
  
  
• Hey, everyone should go take a look at Steve Jablonsky's soundtrack from Transformers. I think it's pretty cool.