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dosthecat
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LastElf
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| BibleGateway - 1 Cor 13 wrote: | | 4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. |
I've been thinking about this lately... pretty much 1 Cor 12-14, but this has stood out. I'm looking at some of this from a relationship standpoint, but there are some parts that speak to everyone you meet.
Love is patient - It's willing to wait as long as it takes for something to happen. If that means you can't see each other for a week, a month, or even a year, then so be it. That's why long distant relationships are so close if they work out, because they've had to deal with the distance and they don't take each other for granted. It works because there is love there, if there's no love it would snap like a twig. This also means that you wait for your fellow man, whether it be driving, in line at the shops or even amongst a crowd.
Love is kind - Pretty obvious stuff, don't be an idiot and be nice to other people.
Love does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud - All fall under the same catagory, don't compare yourself to others. This means wealth, amount of friends, who those friends are, what you do or don't do, etc. You are you, don't go comparing yourself to others, they have as much as they have for a reason, to bring glory.
Love is not rude - See kind.
Love is not self-seeking - This was touched on at CDC tonight as well. See Emily and Penny's blogs for more details, they've said it better than I can and that's the point I'm trying to make.
Love is not easily angered, it keeps no records of wrongs - This is the one that spoke out, and I see it in everyone. I know well how hard it is to forgive someone for something they've done, and this is basicly what we're talking about here. Forgive and forget.
At the beginning of the year when Ryan came down, he was at Lukas's and there was some kind of misunderstanding or such. In the end, Layla and Lukas were both swearing at me, a great first impression from Layla. A few months later and I'm at youth, I get a phone call from her asking to talk to Lukas, Ryan had done something stupid and she was freaked out, I find out the rest of the story from Lukas, I get back home and start talking to Layla, seeing a side I don't think I would have if this didn't happen. She ended up saying sorry about the first impression and since then we've been pretty good friends.
I didn't hold it against her, and I still don't, she's a pretty cool person past what I saw. And I'm sure the same is with Lukas, Candace and even Sam. I'm more than willing to talk to them, but they're holding the cards on how they want to react.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth - "God is love, but to love you have to hate. God can't love good and not hate evil." - Paul Washer (quoted from memory). Pretty much enough said in just that quote.
Love ALWAYS protects, ALWAYS trusts, ALWAYS hopes, ALWAYS perseveres - If it doesn't then there's a good chance it isn't love.
As Christians we're told to "Love one another as yourself", so that means you always protect those around you, you always trust (within reason I guess?), you always hope for better, you're always patient with that person, you're always forgiving, you're always nice to them. I know it's hard, but where did it say that this Christian thing would be easy? Through hardships you grow and bring glory to His name.
Comments welcome, I'll check back and finish off with the context that I saw it at when I get hold of the PC next. |
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Kung-Fu
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Mon Aug 13, 2007 6:51 am |
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Very good insight. If only everyone would take the scripture in. Unfortunately it rarely happens.
Good ol' Paul Washer... he also said, "Now you say, "God can't hate me 'cause God is love!" But I say, that God MUST hate me because God is love. See I love kids, therefore I must hate abortion."
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dosthecat
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Mon Aug 13, 2007 12:39 pm |
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rarely understood is the previous passage, quoted from King James.
"1Co 13:1 If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.
1Co 13:2 And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
1Co 13:3 And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing. "
without love, you will NEVER GET ANYWHERE!!! this is why in my opinion so many christians come up against a brick wall about two weeks after recieving the baptism of fire, because they can't advance without advancing their love, both for others and for god. it needs to be that love as defined in neilsen's passage, and it needs to be consistent. this is also why so many christians come back from conventions 'on fire for god', then it dies down after a little while and they're just another face in the worldy crew. they have not love, their fire profits them nothing.
going back to neilsen's one again, again it's rare that people make the connection between this passage and 1jo 4:8, that god is love.
read the passage, substitute the word 'love' for the word 'God.' it stays accurate. i think this passage has a dual purpose, not only to instruct us as to the definition of perfect love, but to teach us about God's personality.
the closer you get to god, the more you love. the more you love, the closer you get to god. if this isn't true, then something is seriously wrong.
edit, if this is all wrong, then so be it. but i think there needs to be an understanding of the power of love, it needs to be present in everything we do.
"These three abide, hope, faith and love. but the greatest of these is love." |
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Little Jess
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Mon Oct 15, 2007 10:55 am |
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"Love" the post (haha! No pun intended  ) And i can't wait to see more. Git tha' brain pumpin boy! (Just posting because school ish borin')
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Mon Oct 15, 2007 2:16 pm |
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| gasp! she has thoih at skewl![/quote] |
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Little Jess
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Yesh! And there's nothing they can do about it! MUHAHAHAHA!
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