Devotional for friends // Devocional para as amigas

  This week I read 1 Corinthians 14.  It is about spiritual gifts. Every person gets one or more. It doesn’t need to be the same for everybody, as many want me to think. I understand the spiritual gifts are much more for building up the Church of Christ than just for my own benefit (1 Cor 14:6-17). Paul talks a lot about it. I get that thrill, the wave of emotions that comes when you feel the Spirit moving you. But sometimes I think it is more about physiology than purely spiritual. You see, the music, the beat, the chords, and all about the music can be made to excite you or to make you feel sad. Music is made to change your emotions. The wave sounds (I don’t exactly know how, but they do) can change something in your brain and change your behavior and emotions. So yes, you can feel very emotional in the church when you are singing songs of Worship, and also it can be the Holy Spirit. If it were the Holy Spirit, people would leave ...

  Everybody thinks they know how to love. Do we really? First of all, love is not and should not be an emotion. Love is action. You show a person that you love, you don't demand love. Love is not a fleeting thing. You should choose love and stick with it. No matter what. If you say you love, better show me how. You and I should all be recognized by everyone as "a loving person". There is one thing that gets on my nerves. When someone, anyone, doesn’t believe in me. Who really knows me knows that I don’t lie. I hate lies, and I am not fond of liars. In 1 Corinthians 13, Paul tells us about what love should really look like. I read this this morning, and I remember that I have in my family someone with trust issues. This person is always doubting others. Whether someone is plotting something against her/him or someone has a hidden agenda. Or even everybody else has a distorted view of reality, and only this person (the one with trust issues, ...