1 Cor 13:4-7
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
When I read this passage, I'm always humbled; Ifeel that I basically fail at love. But the spirit pressed on my heart earlier this week that GOD is LOVE. So if we substitute GOD where LOVE appears in this passage, we get a reassuring reminder that HE is patient, kind, he gives us free will, he doesn't hold our sins against us (since we have accepted his son), he rejoices when his truth wins out. He'll never give up on us, or lose belief in us, and is always hopeful that we'll turn to him in every circumstance. WOW. Also, I may not be good at loving, but I can set my sights to be good at knowing and becoming more like Jesus, and by doing that I'm by default, going to become more loving as a result of the spirit's sanctification work inside of me. Dear Lord, thank you for your Love that transforms me from the inside out, help me grow in your love and share that with others, AMEN.
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Wow! What an awesome concept to read that verse by substituting GOD for LOVE. I must have read that passage a hundred times when dating Kristin, realizing how poor I was at truly loving her. What an encouragement to know that 1)those verses apply to how deeply God loves us and 2) how growing closer to Him will bring us closer to loving perfectly like He does.
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