Really love 1 Corinthians 13:7

Posted on by Just broken

1 Corinthians 13:7 (NLT)
7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

I guess we’ve kinda lost this concept if you think about it.

Love never gives up. Never.

Love never loses faith. Never.

Love is always hopeful. Always.

Love endures through every circumstance. Every.

Love doesn’t quit. If we quit, where’s the love at? If we quit, do we really know love? The world is full of quit.

It also takes more than one to love. One who loves with one who doesn’t is abuse – I know this from my experience being once married to someone who was not right in the head and wasn’t going to do anything about it. Alfred Hitchcock titled a movie after her. There are people like that. They are hard to love.

I’m under no illusion about love. It takes more than one. It takes all of us. It also means that those that love will be hurt – not once but many times. Over and over. Love is sacrificial.

At the end of the day, Christ is perfect love. God is perfect love. If we want to change the world, we need to love radically as we’ve been loved by God.

Can you give up enough of yourself to really love?

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I Love The Father, Son and Holy Spirit and the blessings He has poured into my life. I pray that I live a life that glorifies Him in all I do, but I fail every day, many, many, many times. I have come here through brokenness, a trail of pain and broken promises that I've created through my self centeredness, self will and arrogance. For those I've hurt, please forgive me for what I did. Those things that I remember I am truly sorry I did them. I wish I could undo them. I can't. I use these lessons as motivation to be a builder, to take those experiences and hopefully keep someone else out of their own similar experiences. I love my wife, my children, my family, my friends, my strangers, and those the world would like to dismiss as an unfortunate error messing up worldly perfection. I get frustrated with all of the above too, for I am broken, not like God. Lord, give me your wisdom, your patience, and knowledge of your will for me and the strength to carry that out in all I do. I believe we have work to do while we are here and need to be actively engaged in allowing God to work through us. A Christian is someone who does what The Father, Son and Holy Spirit calls them to do, a builder not a taker, a conduit not a pinnacle, humble and serving. Micah 6:8 Matthew 25:31-46