What are you holding on to? Are you keeping records of every time someone has hurt you or did something you didn’t like? Are you impatient, mean, and envious? Are you seeking what will bring you pleasure and are you easily angered? Are you delighting in what is sinful and evil or are you rejoicing in the truth? What is your picture of love? Remember, God is love and we need to look to Him to see what true love really is.
How many times have we let our hurt cloud our vision of what love really is. Unfortunately in this world, people will hurt you. They will do things without considering what the affect of their actions will be on those around them. They will act in their flesh not considering the reaction that will soon follow. Don’t be a person who only loves themself. A person who seeks to please their own flesh and fails to understand what it means to truly love someone.
When you love someone, you are patient with them. You understand that they are not perfect and neither are you. You walk in forgiveness and you give others an opportunity to get it right. Sometimes people will and sometimes they won’t but love allows them the opportunity to do what is right. Remember love is kind and it is not envious. Understand, jealousy is not love. You don’t have to boast and walk in pride when you are walking in love. Love is honorable and it is respectful. It’s not self-seeking. Instead, it seeks opportunity to do something for others. We have to know what love is and we have to walk in it if we want to fulfill God’s plan and purpose in the earth.
SCRIPTURE MEDITATION
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
New International Version (NIV)
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
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