Performed by the band For King and Country, it is the song-form of the well-known "love passage" of 1 Corinthians 13. It impacted me when I first heard it, but days and years have a way of making me forgetful. I find that that song has taken its place among hundreds of beloved songs I wish I could remember all the time, but which sadly are waiting for me to unearth them from the complicated filing system of my brain.
Today, something or Someone (my Lord, Who does best at reminding me of important things), made me think of this song, so I looked it up on youtube to see what I could find.
King and Country's official video of the song dramatically portrays the power of love. I pulled back a bit at first, both intrigued and uncertain as to what the characters and plot were really depicting. After watching it over and over, I find that I am touched by the drama almost as much as I was originally touched by the words. If you aren't "into" this kind of thing, excuse my ramblings, please. But if you take a look, maybe you'll be as positively impacted as I am being. Here is the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-2dKOfbC9c.
I am including the full chapter of 1 Corinthians 13 (found from Biblegateway.com) that my mother taught Kyrie and myself when we were children. These words never grow old.
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: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13 And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
