1 Corinthians 13: 1-3; 9-12
If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed the poor, and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.
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For we know in part and we prophesy in part; but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away. When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also have been fully known. But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is love.
哥林多前書 第13章 一節至三節；九節至十二節
我若能說萬人的方言、並天使的話語、卻沒有愛、我就成了鳴的鑼、響的鈸一般。我若有先知講道之能、也明白各樣的奧秘、各樣的知識，而且有全備的信、叫我能夠移山、卻沒有愛、我就算不得甚麼。我若將所有的賙濟窮人、又捨己身叫人焚燒、卻沒有愛、仍然與我無益。
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我們現在所知道的有限、先知所講的也有限，等那完全的來到、這有限的必歸於無有了。我作孩子的時候、話語像孩子、心思像孩子、意念像孩子，既成了人、就把孩子的事丟棄了。我們如今彷彿對著鏡子觀看、模糊不清，〔模糊不清原文作如同猜謎〕到那時、就要面對面了，我如今所知道的有限，到那時就全知道、如同主知道我一樣。如今常存的有信、有望、有愛、這三樣、其中最大的是愛。
Having a chance to exchange comments with another person on one of the national newspaper blogs, I clearly noticed two things about a person who is always on the edge of his seat to split out criticism.
1) He must generalize the world (i.e. people, place, thing, etc.) around him into different poorly separated categories. And then depending on the topic, he will pick and choose a category to spit out his criticism. He knows people by their categories, not by their real faces; by their externals, not by their true values. As time goes by, this becomes so natural that he can't even tell the difference anymore. And, he begins to treat God and His work the same way.
2) He likes to increase the complexity of whatever he's trying to say. When you use a sieve to sift his words, you will probably find very little in it. It's also hard to find a standpoint of his saying because his interest is not to reflect and improve his view, but to reiterate the same thing in every possible way.
It's very understandable. The moment he stops generalizing the world around him is the moment he needs to learn to care and love the ones who he initially finds unbearable and accepts the fallacy of his words, thus taking away the thrill coming from spitting out criticism so freely. The moment he takes away the complexity of his saying is the moment there'll be true communication and relationship.
Praise God!
His message is plain and simple yet unimaginable without His own revelation.
He knows us by name.
Through every possible way, He is determined to rebuild the relationship with each and everyone of us.
Praise Him!
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