WhatLove

“What About Love”
December 3, 2003

Through the years as a 54 year old woman I do not think I fully understood love in the beginning of my marriage of 36 years. When I think back of how God has miraculously delivered us from the fate of divorce, I have nothing but praise to the Lord. God has done a wonderful work in both our lives and we cling as He has spoken to us in his Word.

Yes, even though we were surrendered to Jesus Christ Lordship in our home, we still struggled with ourselves. You’re probably asking yourself, how could this struggle be happening in the lives of God’s people? It really isn’t that difficult when you think of how sin entered in when we were created.

Love is very mysterious to me and I haven’t quite figured out why it grows so cold in some relationships. I realize it is a matter of choice but so many good covenants get tossed in the court room garbage can. That is very sad to me because in my experience, God can take our trash and restore it completely.

No, I am not speaking of love as trash but sometimes we bring trash into the relationship. Unless we allow the Lord to filter and clean it up it rears its ugly head. The sad part is that most of the time it is destroyed because the trash just stinks up the whole relationship.

In I Corinthians 13:4-8, 13 “Charity(love) suffereth long, and is kind; charity(love) envieth not; charity(love) vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil; Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in truth; Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things,” “And now abideth faith, hope, and charity(love), these three; but the greatest of these is charity(love.)”

Love when put to the test must endure. Why? For this is God’s will in order for marriage to be sanctified.
Love has to have generosity and understanding when faced with differences of opinions. Love is to desire the best for our mate in everything he or she does.
We are to be in their cheering box and encouraging them to be all God has called them to be.
We have to consider ourselves their servant or help-mate as God created us to be.
Love doesn’t draw attention to self by having a prideful or boastful spirit.
Love is surrendering yourself as first person.
Love has self-control towards one another.
Love has a pure mind at all times.
Yes, love finds pleasure in truth and seeing another person be blessed.
Love has no evil intentions or hidden motives.
Love meets anything head on, love’s foundation is faith in the Lord, and most of all love has hope when it is met with the forces of destruction.

I believe we all can have the love of a lifetime when we take God’s Word to practice.
Nothing can shake up a relationship when the greatest characteristic in our life is love.

Thank you Jesus for giving us “Agape” love. Help us to learn in our homes how to practice this love so when we go outside in the world and be living witnesses...

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