love

What a powerful thing. I’ve been blessed to have been surrounded by it in my life. My parents, my grandparents, my sister, my friends, and most of all my God. I cannot honestly say I’ve been a good steward of all this love. Over the years I’ve become aware of it and the reaction I’m having to it is wanting to love back. The love of God has pursued me in all the stages my heart gone through. Most surprisingly, his love has pursued me in my darkest moments. A lot of people think the God Christians believe in is judgmental but it just isn’t so. I believe it is us Christians who are to blame for those sentiments.

God has loved me with an unbelievable type of love. The type of love that always takes me back. A love that never dwindles, it never forces itself on me and never gives up on me.

With the mistakes I’ve made… anyone, no matter how much they loved me… could have given up on me. God never has. He is so faithful and so kind. So willing to take a hit just so that I can be with him. I want to share that love with others. I’m learning a lot from those around me about how to love others. I’m learning from friends and God. It is taking a lot out of me but it is worth it. I help people live and that is what is important.

I know this is quoted and posted everywhere but nonetheless.

1 Corinthians 13

⁴Love ^(K)is patient, love is kind and ^(L)is not jealous; love does not brag and is not ^(M)arrogant,

⁵does not act unbecomingly; it ^(N)does not seek its own, is not provoked, ^(O)does not take into account a wrong suffered,

^6(P)does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but ^(Q)rejoices with the truth;

^7(R)bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

⁸Love never fails; but if there are gifts of ^(S)prophecy, they will be done away; if there are ^(T)tongues, they will cease; if there is knowledge, it will be done away.

⁹For we ^(U)know in part and we prophesy in part;

¹⁰but when the perfect comes, the partial will be done away.

¹¹When I was a child, I used to speak like a child, think like a child, reason like a child; when I became a man, I did away with childish things.

¹²For now we ^(V)see in a mirror dimly, but then ^(W)face to face; now I know in part, but then I will know fully just as I also ^(X)have been fully known.

¹³But now faith, hope, love, abide these three; but the greatest of these is ^(Y)love.