I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and I have all faith

I did not list 1 Corinthians 13 as a reference for this quote because it is in part, incomplete. The reason I quoted it incomplete is because of what it truly says and means in context. If you do not have what is missing in the quote, so what!!!

I have sat under some really good teachers, gifted in delivering the word. I could not get next to them, I could not connect with them.

I have been trained up in the spiritual gifts. I’ve operated in those gifts, but they happened by the will of God and I had no personal connection with the objects of God’s blessings.

I’ve given prophecy to men I do not know and impacted their decisions without understanding what they were going through.

I have seen things I cannot explain and have no one to share those things with.

Chapter thirteen of first Corinthians is the love chapter. It teaches about the quality and characteristics of love, what it does and what it does not. Reading through that chapter this morning I noticed something was missing, something that you might expect to see but it is not there.

Grace.

2 Corinthians 8:7 Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.

Love is and needs not an object to exist. While love desires to be shared it is none the less for what it is without being received. Grace on the other hand has to be received, it requires an object to rest upon, to focus on, to shower.

Grace was missing in my spiritual gifts. May grace abound in the relationships I am building in Christ.