I have been in a deep personal study today in I Corinthians. I came to the chapter on love. I had to pause and pray. I have become a clanging cymbal. I do not love as I should. It made revisit all my relationships. It made me revisit all the things I do in my daily life.
What I found out is...I need to love. Not a selfish love, in which, I receive accolades for giving love, but a pure love, an agape love and unconditional love. Love does not have time lines. Love does not have degrees. It just is...God is love.
It is so much easier to love only the lovable. It is so much simpler to give love if it's returned. It less complicated to love someone that love us. It does not require effort to love those that I deem appealing. I am nothing, if I do not love. I can have all the faith, but if I do not love it is worth nothing. Love should be bountiful not empty. Love should be all encompassing. Love has rules, loves requires self denial. Love requires willingness. Love is merciful. Love is naturally truthful. Love is not proud. Love is not evil. Love should be refuge, a safe haven. Love should not bring strife or worry. Love is diligent. Love is necessary to complete my faith.
As a reach higher in my walk with the Lord, I want to please Him, by loving others as He loves them. I need to see people like He sees them. My eyes and heart are tainted by the world and I need to love as He loves me. It will certainly be a hard to change my heart, but I know the Lord can soften it. I trust my Father in heaven to show me and give me opportunities to show the love of Christ.
1 Corinthians 13 1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. 4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part. 10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. 11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. 12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
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