Are you looking for love in all the wrong places? We all want to be loved. We all want to experience love but we first have to know and understand what true love is. The Bible says that God is love. So if we really want to know how to love and what to expect from someone who says they love us, we need to look to and at God.
The Bible also tells us in 1 Corinthians that love is patient and suffers long. It says that it is kind and does not envy. Love doesn’t puff up itself and it doesn’t act unseemly. It is not selfish and it is not easily provoked. Love doesn’t think evil and it doesn’t rejoice in iniquity but it does rejoice in truth. With love comes the ability to bear all things, believe all things, hope all things, and to endure all things. So now that you know the traits of love, you can answer the question as to whether you are walking in love and whether others are walking in love towards you.
Love requires commitment and endurance and not everyone is going to be committed to walking in love. Many people in this world are self-seeking. They want to know what they can get instead of what they can give. Many people walk in lust and not in love. So people tend to rejoice in iniquity rather than in truth. Understand, God is truth. So we should be rejoicing in Him.
When we look for love, we need to be looking to and for God. He is our example of what true love really is and how it should look in our lives. So if the love relationships in your life do not reflect who and what God is, a change may need to take place whether it be in you or in those who say they love you.
SCRIPTURE MEDITATION
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
King James Version (KJV)
4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;
6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
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