Anyway, I just wanted to share something that was on my heart tonight.
love.
There's so many different definitions of love out there, everyone seems to have their own little spins or ways that they think love should be. Love is getting lost in someone's eyes. Love is those butterflies in your stomach when you see them around. Love is ...
I grew up and to this day still am a romantic dreamer. I will pick the romance out of a movie and immediately follow only those two characters for the rest of the plot. I can still (with much embarrassment) tell you the name of every boy I had a crush on or thought I was in love with at some point in time. Some might call me a hopeless romantic.
So I've probably read 1 Corinthians 13 like...
And I'm pretty sure every time I read it God shows me something new.
Today I got in a fight with one of my best friends. Fighting is the exact opposite of love. It's no fun, and I always regret it.
So I read 1 Corithians 13... again. (make that a million and one times ;)
And this jumped out at me:
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient... It does not insist on its own way... Love never fails."
I only picked a few of those out, but honestly looking bad at the passage it hit me all over again: love is the opposite of selfishness.
No matter what you do, it means nothing without love.
Had I been thinking of my friends well being, I would have loved. I would have spoken in such a way that was full of grace and caring, and most of all humility.
I finish this post today challenging myself to remember what love really means. :))
"There is no greater love than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
Selflessly.
