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[aron]

Originally Posted by YP0534

I just recently saw clearly that 1 Cor. 13 comes between chapters 12 and 14.

The "Love Chapter" is all about how we meet.

Paul says to stop being childish and to start meeting in love.

I recently ran into a christian friend, and he asked me about something, and I sensed an opportunity to move to a "high theme" that I have been recently impressed with.

So I made some preparatory remarks; because he is fairly constituted I felt that I could give him a "double whammy" of a segue into my topic of choice.

But he challenged me on one of my preliminary points, and we got sidetracked into his interest. He kept saying, "Wow, that's amazing; I never saw that before". At one point I just shoehorned my "high peak theme" into the conversation, and he ignored it and went back to how amazing my opening remarks were to him.

At that point I remembered the (in)famous remark of Nee about playing piano to cows, and I had a strong inner response that maybe I was the cow, trying to play piano. Maybe the Holy Spirit wanted him to see something besides my "grand theme".

So I dropped my burden, and his new interest became our theme. He became, for a while, the featured speaker, and I dropped into a supporting role. And a couple of my supporting points pleased us both immensely. They were delivered, impromptu, by my "intuition", or a random search of my memory banks, or the Holy Spirit Himself, who knows?

Anyway, we both became very pleased, and satisfied with the conversation, and he and I both parted like Phillip and the Ethiopian eunuch: each rejoicing in his good fortune at partaking for a moment of the glorious corporate flow.

I cannot impose the Spirit's speaking into another's heart. I can only speak, and testify, and witness of the glorious 'parousia'. It is enough. Jesus meets each, right where they are. Why should I do otherwise? We are already "meeting on the proper ground".

[YP0534]

Originally Posted by aron

So I dropped my burden, and his new interest became our theme. He became, for a while, the featured speaker, and I dropped into a supporting role. And a couple of my supporting points pleased us both immensely. They were delivered, impromptu, by my "intuition", or a random search of my memory banks, or the Holy Spirit Himself, who knows?

1Cr 13:2 And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.