I just hopped over to LDS.org to read this week's lesson so I can be thinking about it for the next couple of days. I noticed that the definition that Paul gives for Charity is rather broad:    
 1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling 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, and have not charity, I am nothing. 
  3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing. 
  4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, 
  5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; 
  6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; 
  7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. 
  8 Charity never faileth: . . . 
I thought "if I could live up to Paul's definition of charity, I'd be doing pretty good".  What a great goal to shoot for.
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Charity
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