on the HCC Lagos Future Church board… Sunday 8th March 2026
If you were in a queue for a gift and it is exhausted before it got to you, what would you do? What would love do?
I think your answer will give the distance between you and Love
This was how the conversation with children at our weekly ‘Know Your Bible’ study program at the Future Church today flowed. Our focus was on a very popular Scripture. I should believe that 1 Corinthians 13 is one of the most preached passages in the Bible.
My task is to help guide this undiluted truth into these young hearts in a simple, interactive, but profound manner.
‘Love is patient’ is the first of about 14-15 ‘What is Love’ attributes that we had listed. We established that Love will not shunt the queue to get ahead. Love will wait and be calm, knowing that its turn will come.
Then I asked: what should Love do if the gift that’s been shared gets exhausted?
Our responses produced three helpful truths for everyone.
1. Love is patient – love indeed has to continue to wait because surely, more supplies will come and then Love’s turn will come
2. Love is kind – but really, what if no supply comes? This leads us to the second attribute – love is kind – it is incumbent on others who have gotten the gift to share with Love so that they can all be happy.
3. Love is not self-seeking – what if none of them wants to share with Love? This leads us to no. 6 attribute – love is not self-seeking. Love should gladly take its miss as a sacrifice. Love should not throw tantrums, blame God or the world for being so unfair and unkind to it. Love should consider that it will not always have its way around things in life.
Would you do this 3 if you are on a Nigerian queue?
That answer could be the distance between you and Love.
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