1Co 13:1-8 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
Not having love leaves us with nothing!! I wishI could truthfully say that I love the way this passage describes. It talks about love being patient and kind, and I am not very patient, and often times I am not treating others with kindness. Love does not envy or boast. I can't say that I pass this one either. I am often envious of what others seem to have that seems better then what I have. Love does not insist on its own way, yeah right. I think our sin nature says it all, we want our own way and often times will sin to get it. Love is not irritable or resentful. I think about all the times that I have been irritable towards others, so I must not have love. Resentment is also a hard one because I harbor resentment in my heart and often that resentment turns to bitterness. That does not seem loving at all. Love rejoices in the truth, what truth? Is it the truth of Gods words or what others say to be true about us, or about others. Love bears ALL things, that's the hard one. I am not sure I bear all things, often times I want to run away and say forget it, or want to fight for my own way. Love endures all things. I feel like I am at the end of my endurance, ready to give up the race. I am definately guilty of not loving the way Gods words says. Lord I don't know how to love the way you command us to. Love is so hard to do and takes so much effort, and it is often painful. Help me Lord to love the way you would have me to love. Forgive me of my unbelief and my unfaithfulness towards you. Give me the strength to love others the way you love them.
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