"If I can talk to anyone, but don't love, I am just noise.
If I have all these spiritual gifts and knowledge and faith bigger than anyone's, but don't love, I am a big zero!
If I give away everything, sacrifice myself, but don't love, then I am the biggest loser."
How does love look/sound/feel?
- it is patient & kind
- it doesn't get jealous or brag about what it is or has or can do or where it's been
- it's not rude
- it doesn't have to be #1- have it's way
- it isn't grouchy or begrudging
- it is sorrowed by wrongs done others
- it is thrilled by things that are truthful & just
- it puts up with everything thrown at it
- it believes in others
- it hopes
- it endures no matter what
- it never ends
Boy, I've got a long way to go. Help me God to love, no matter the cost. Help me to put away the child in me and grow up to love like You do.
We all have a long way to go. Just when I think I have finally "arrived" I fall on my face again. But we have to just reach out to God, ask for His forgiveness and take it knowing that means we have to forgive also. Maybe falling on our face now and then isn't so bad - maybe it keeps us going to Him and not relying on ourself.
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