1 Corinthians 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.
My Thoughts
Being a loving person is a choice..... Often we say we love somebody then we choose not to act in loving ways. 1 Corinthians 13 says that "Three things will last forever -- faith, hope and love -- the greatest of these is love." Jesus spoke of love all the time. God expects us to be loving. We have to choose to be patient when we feel inpatient. We have to choose kindness even it the mist of a busy day. We need to choose not to be boastful, proud. Rudeness seems to abound in today's world. People are rude in cars, people are rude in restaurants, in Wal-Mart. There is rudeness everywhere.... it can be hard not to be rude back...but the Bible tells us that we are not being loving when we are rude. We are suppose to love everybody... that means strangers...one way to love strangers is by choosing not to be rude. Love is not irritable, sometimes we just wake up that way.... if we can only be irritable we need to go somewhere and be by ourselves until we can be kind... We can be loving enough to say, "I am sorry I am really irritable today please give me my space so I won't in any way be unkind to you." Love does not keep score, it does not keep a record of what somebody has done to you that was wrong. The devil loves to remind us of what other people have done to us...the devil loves to get under our skin. When he does that we just need to tell the devil that we choose love, we choose not to keep score so he can just go on his merry way. Love does not get excited when somebody else is hurt in any way or when somebody "gets their comeuppance." Love gets excited when we choose to do what God ask us to do. When we are loving we never give up on others. When we are loving we never loose faith that God is in control... When love abounds in our hearts we can always feel hope. Love endures everything....when we love others we stick with them through thick and thin..we don't go running off when things get hard.
Love is a choice...it is easy to love the lovable... we show God that we are loving when we love everybody else. I sure hope love wins out with the people around me when I am my least lovable.
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