I love putting my favorite fortune cookie sayings on my tape dispenser.  My favorite one so far is: “Ignore previous cookie”. YEAH!

The rest I saved as inspiring messages like: “Keep your goals away from the trolls”, “Go for it you never know what happens next”, and sage advice like “Begin nothing until you have considered how it is to be finished” (I don’t take that advice much!)… I’m not saving ‘get rich quick’ promises because fortune telling is a form of idolatry and false hope, but I like the cute messages which gently inspire. “When you learn to be flexible, amazing opportunities reveal themselves.” TRUE! And “Today, some new connections will be very exciting indeed.” FUN!

Recently, but I don’t remember the circumstances, I opened a fortune cookie just as I was in a complicated thought process. I’m sure I was going for the sugar stress grab over the fortune advice, another form of a dangerous slippery slope of sweet yet sugar-soothing sin-stressing. But I knew best it is to trust the Lord and even keep faith in the trials. Well, I laughed at yet the best “fortune-ate” fortune saying from the cookie: “Love, because it is the only true adventure.” AHHH… YES…

Now, I’m ‘framing’ that statement in a Godly context (as well as taping it to my tape dispenser). LOVE. The advice was to look towards love. GOD IS LOVE, and Godly LOVE IS an ADVENTURE every day… I know you know that, we surely experience it.

Yes, we are to remember as well as appreciate all the Godly gifted reminders of how to love: “Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.” from 1st Corinthians 13:4-7.

I don’t remember what that stress item was that cracked me and coincided as I cracked open the cookie and read the fortune for fun. That stress disappeared almost as fast as the cookie crunched, but I will remember what never disappeared nor disappears, God’s Love and counsel. You might forget everything else but don’t forget HIS LOVE.

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 1Cor13:8

That is truth and not a fortune, but a fortunate find of KNOWING God’s adventurous LOVE every day – we best put TODAY in God’s Hands. 

Amen 

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And here is the rest of the chapter, beginning and end with the love section in the middle as it always is:

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. 1Cor13:1-3

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For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the GREATEST of these is LOVE. 1Cor13:9-13