February 2026 Revealing Light Newsletter

Yes, we usually hear the “love chapter” read at weddings for the newly wed couple, reminding many of us in relationships how to love; yet, this chapter has an even bigger context that helps all of us even more. The “Love Chapter” referenced comes from the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Church in Corinth, chapter 13. He goes in detail of what love is in the midst of talking about doing all of these great things for people, all of those great things mean nothing if there is no love in it. As Disciples of Jesus, as adopted Children into God’s Kingdom Family, we get to experience what love really is from God and toward each other.

What is this love that we receive from God, and give to others? Well, we read and experience that...
“love is patient and kind; it is not jealous nor is it boastful (bragging), it is not proud/arrogantly puffed up. It does not dishonor others (by being rude or acting disgracefully). Love does not demand its own way in self-seeking matters, nor is it easily angered (irritable/provoked). Love keeps no record of wrongs (leading to resentfulness). Love does not rejoice at wrongdoing (does not delight in evil), but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things (to protect with confidence), it believes and trusts all things, it hopes all things, and endures all things. Love never fails.”
[1 Corinthians 13:4-8a. A collection of several different translations together]

This is already a beautiful reminder for our relationships, though it’s a beautiful reminder of the love God shows us, and the love that we share with each other as Jesus’ Church here in our communities, and with brothers and sisters in Christ around the world of all nations. As we celebrate Valentine’s, the “love” month, I pray that we each will receive, walk-in, and share God’s Love toward each of us.
 
- Daryl Struemph

How do you survive 40 days in the wilderness without food? 40 days without food?! Actually, 40 days in the wilderness without food! What do you eat on to sustain you in the wilderness where there is no food?

Jesus was led (by the Holy Spirit) into the wilderness for 40 days and nights without food, to fast and pray, to be tempted by the devil [Matthew 4:1–11; Mark 1:12-13; Luke 4:1–13]. What was Jesus eating during that time frame? Perhaps it was God’s Words of Life that He grew up learning, that He just kept eating and munching on throughout those days. In fact, after all of those days of fasting and prayer, Satan tries to tempt Jesus -- the Son of God -- to use His divine power to turn the nice looking stone into bread. But Jesus having treasured God’s Words in His heart replied from experience, almost like ‘do you not realize the past 40 days “that man does not live by bread alone, but by every Word that comes from God.” During the past 40 days, it wasn’t food that sustained Jesus’ life, but every Life-Giving Word from God & every breath that He breathes life into us. And Jesus wasn’t even trying to do this alone either by His own willpower, God was with Jesus through the Holy Spirit as well.

So in the Wilderness seasons, remember that we live by every word God has breathed, giving us life each day; and that we are not lone-rangers in the wilderness season, but that God is there with you through that season, whether you hear His voice or not during that season, He is speaking through every Word He has breathed in His Life Giving Word that we get to read and treasure in our hearts.

In the Wilderness seasons, live each day with God & His Words. Even when the devil comes to tempt or test us, we have experienced God’s Presence with us each day as we choose each time to Submit to God, Resist the Devil, and that devil will flee [James 4:7]. Go Through the wilderness seasons with God & His Words.

- Daryl Struemph

1 Corinthians 12:31–13:13 (NIV)

Now eagerly desire the greater gifts.
And yet I will show you the most excellent way.
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.
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.
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. 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.