We now draw to a close our four Snacks from that great chapter on love as written by Saint Paul in his first letter to the Corinthians chapter 13. In verses 11-13 we read:  When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. How often we would like to maintain the simplicity of that childlikeness in our approach to life, but it can never be. When it comes to love we must move to maturity.

Therefore, following those same principles of maturity we develop a conscious and adult life of loving all to whom we are sent:  When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. We will never have the complete picture of all that love is to Father God, but we will see and know it well when we move into larger life with him.

We can be amazed by what we see which demonstrates loving in the lives we now live, but there will always be more to see, know, and experience:  Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. As we begin to see things with the eyes of Father God we begin to glimpse this world and its people with truly different eyes. What we have come to know will be merely a starting place of loving.

Everything we experience with the Lord Jesus Christ will be used as the basis for learning more and more about what he wants in our lives. Nothing will ever be wasted:  And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. One can have everything at the fingertips in this life of faith, but without that love foundation we will never truly know what it is to be Christian. I choose to be a lover!