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.
In my Andrews Study Bible I found a little tidbit that I wanted to share with you all today.
For verse 7 -it says "Describes how Jesus deals with us, to love means to see past the present failing of a person to what he or she shall be as God's new creation." Isn't that encouraging?
What it means to love is a tall, tall order. In fact, in our own strength we could not love in the way that God would have us to love. But with God - all things are possible. In my life there are people that are hard to love. And I have to pray and ask God to love them through me - because I can not do it on my own. One thing that has made it a little easier to love those we find hard to love is to pray or them. There is something about praying for them that softens your heart for them- God working in us.
Amen my friend.
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