Love is the greatest! Did you know that? It is not just a warm fuzzy feeling that you get around a certain someone. When you stand before God and pledge your love and your lives to each other, you're saying some pretty heavy words! I believe that love is another way of saying, "No Matter What".
1 Corinthians 13 is called the love chapter. It puts what love is into simple, tangible actions that can we can utilize to show our spouse how much we really do love them. Let's see what the New Living Translation says about love:
"Love is patient, love is 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."
I like the NLT for its bluntness. Whenever I read this, I am moved deeply to strive for these portrayals of love! I am also twinged with pangs of sadness for the times when I have not chosen love as an expression to those that I really do love deeply.
My good friend Judy once told me that if I am impatient, I should pray for more love because love is patient. If I am unkind, I should pray for more love, because love is kind. If I am hopeless, I should pray for more love because love endures every circumstance and is hopeful! You see, when we struggle or are in conflict, the best thing we can do is to continually ask the Lord for more and more of His love. Love is everything good in our lives! 1 Corinthians 14:1a NLT says "Let Love be your highest goal".
In the good times and bad, continually ask God for more and more love to come from Him and be put into action by you. No matter what.
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