Love is suffers long. Love is Kind. Love doesn't envy, Love doesn't seek to advance itself, it is not proud. It does not react in a wrong way to any situation, Love doesn't seek it's own good. Love is not provoked easily, and does not assume evil of another. Love doesn't rejoice when another falls into sin, but Love rejoices in what is true. Love bears all things- even when it's not fair. Love believes the best. Love hopes- always hopes. Love endures all things. Love, true love, does not fail, in spite of all of this.
Love is a gift of God. True love is not something we find in ourselves, and without Him, we are completely void of love that will endure the most severe trials.
It is not hard to love someone who loves us, but when we face total rejection, when we have been wounded, to love the one who broke us is a task that we cannot handle, but God give us the strength, the grace and the gift of True Love in our hearts.
True love. It's a perfect picture of who God is, and what He desires us to be. It's one of the hardest things we will ever meet- to have and to live this true love, because it's deeply painful. It asks us to die- and that is hard.. so very hard. But to have this Love, is to have something that's worth the pain... any pain, that it might cost us.
Lord... let me die, so you can live. Let me suffer any pain, only let my life be a reflection... of your love.
- by Chantel Harding
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2 comments:
Amen! When Jesus said, "Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends," He didn't necessarily mean only a literal laying-down of one's life. Perhaps He also meant that the greatest love a person can show another will always mean sacrifice of something valuable.
THank you for writing and sharing such a beautiful post, Chantel! :->
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