Love and Serenity

What is Love? In 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 the bible says "Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong doing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away".  With love there comes a serenity many of you may know of or heard the Serenity Prayer the full prayer goes like this

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, 

Courage to change the things which should be changed, 

and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. 

Living one day at a time, 

Enjoying one moment at a time, 

Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace,

Taking, as Jesus did, 

This sinful world as it is,

Not as I would have it,

Trusting that You will make all things right, 

If I surrender to Your will,

So that I may be reasonably happy in this life, 

And supremely happy with You forever in the next. 

Amen.

We must understand that there are 2 things that we cannot change because they are unchangeable, Ecclesiastes 3:14 says "I perceived that whatever God does endures forever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it. God has done it, so that people fear before him." God's Word and Love. So why are they unchangeable? Because God's Word is Love.