What is love like God's love? How is it different than the love of the world?
God teach me to love like you love us!
1 Corinthians 13
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. 2 And though I have the gift ofprophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, it profits me nothing.
4 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.
This is a radical love! This kind of love is only possible with God I believe! For the love of the world easily loses hope. It seeks its its own interest. Love that Hollywood and the majority of human culture these days does not endure hardship. In fact once the going gets rough the philosophy of the world is that this must not be real love. Shouldn't love be easy and magical and require no work the world assumes. So when it gets rough then its time to give up and find another fleeting love to last as long as it suits us.
But God as your son I ask you to teach me to love like you. Through faith you can give me strength to persevere and hope and trust despite the seasons and the ups and downs. For this kind of Love never fails!
I thank you that through my relationship with Ivanna I get to see and experience a tangible experience of how great your Love is God!
Amen
as I age I realize that human beings would benefit. to think of romantic love as an action not a feeling so much. Otherwise it leads to human mistakes and misgivings , as feelings can & surely do change!
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