It's hard when you have loved someone so long, that they become a part of you. And the greater your relationship grows, a greater piece of you they take with them. It's sad when a love like that, a love that seems so real, can be broken by something so worldly...something that I know the devil is behind. It's sad to come to the realization that the person you love has no hope to feel that love again. I can't describe that sadness in knowing. It's a beautiful thing to love, and to be loved. "The greatest thing you'll ever learn, is just to love, and be loved in return". Kind of spawning off that, and from what I feel God is leading me to do, is to start this daily project. Every day, I read to myself 1 Corinthians 13: 4-7. It talks about love. Until myself and the person I date or plan to marry can completely embrace and love the way that that verse says, then I am not ready to be in a relationship with them.
I was wondering though... Is this verse what we should strive to love like? Or is this a constant and finite thing, that if we found a love like this, then it's true? I am so curious to know the answer to this question! Is God using this to be a guide for us, or is he telling us, that when we find true love, it will be like this?
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (New International Version)
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.
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God is amazing. I see it more and more everyday and it never gets old. He is so romantic, and I love it. No man could ever compare to what God does for me. God gives me flowers, any day I want them. He showers me with good thoughts, good experiences, and time. He gives me every new day. He gives me the sun, and the warmth of that to hug me when I need one. He is so incredible. He loves me, and I am in love with him. No one can ever measure up to my God. I want to love like Corinthians; and I want to do it for him - the one who loves me.
I personally think these verses serve more as a guide to how love should be, and they show truth of how God's perfect love is for us. God is the only one who is perfect, so I think he is the only one that can give love exactly like those verses describe. No two people are perfect, so no love is going to be exactly perfect like God's love, but if you strive to put God in the center of your love relationship and ask for him to give you all these things, you will have a great love. you'll only have patience, forgiveness, no envy, etc. if you ask God for those things.
ReplyDeleteWell said Elsbeth : ) So you think it's more of a guide for what we should strive for? That's how I see it. No one is perfect...NO ONE. If we expect that people are, we are building ourselves up for huge disappointment. God is SO amazing, and he is SO perfect, and LOVES PERFECT! I can't imagine even imagining someone could compare. How artistic is our God... think of the detail he puts into the flowers, the colors he puts into the sky, the craftsmanship he puts into human beings... it's amazing, really.
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