It has been an interesting weekend on GWI. LAWD!
All of this stuff takes me back to my younger days...because I saw it more often then.
i'm reminded of the Musiq song "Love"...the chorus says:
Love - so many people use your name in vain.
Love - Those who have faith in you sometimes go astray
Love - Through all the ups and down and joy and hurts
Love - For better or worse I still will choose you first.
hmm....but what does it mean to choose love?
"Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful; it is not arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood. So faith, hope, love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love. "1 Cor 13:4-13
My belief is that choosing love means choosing the high road even when it's hard. In life, we don't always get what we want...and that's not necessarily a bad thing because sometimes the things we want aren't meant for us or aren't good for us. I have to trust that since God knows my end from my beginning that there is a reason certain things and/or people are outside my grasp. sometimes I am not good for them. sometimes they are not good for me. other times, I am not ready for them..or they are not ready for me. If I am love; possess love; espouse love; give love, I have to be sure I understand the meaning of the word. Love is patient and kind. If what I feel is impatient and unkind to the person I claim to love or those that that person loves, then it isn't love.
Love is not jealous or boastful. If I covet something - a relationship; a connection; a tangible belonging - or someone
it isn't love.
Love is not arrogant or rude. If I possess arrogance and rudeness. I am not nor do I possess love.
LOVE DOES NOT INSIST ON IT'S OWN WAY. If it's my way or the highway; If I lust after something so much that I am willing to destroy it rather than allow it to flourish simply because it won't be mine, Love has nothing to do with it. Selfishness is not a quality that love possesses. Love is the epitome of selflessness. Sometimes loving something and loving someone means letting it/them go. It's not easy,. If it were, there would be nothing special or miraculous about love. Love is not about SELF. Love is about holding something/someone so precious and dear that we want what is best for it's preservation and happiness..even if it means losing it. phrases like "if I can't have________(fill in the blank), nobody can" do not exist within the framework of love. If what you feel isn't this mature, then it's not love
Love is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right
if I am consumed and don't care who gets hurt; if I am wreckless with my emotions and the emotions of those affected by my actions; if I don't regard even the feelings of the one I purport to love, It simply isn't love. If I am happy when I make someone elses way harder, it ain't love.
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends
if it means heartbreak.,.love lets me bear it..with grace and dignity
if it means confusion...love allows me to believe that there is a higher purpose and a greater blessing for me at the end of the journey
if it means feeling broken...love gives me the fortitude to keep hope in my heart that God has my back and will prove Himself faithful.
If it means my world feels like it's falling apart...love gives me the strength to ENDURE. I know a mender who will hold it together when I can't.
1st John 4:7,8
Beloved let us love one another
for everyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth God
He that loveth not, knoweth not God
FOR GOD IS LOVE
If it isn't divine and sacrificing
if it isn't patient & kind
if it is jealous and boastful
if it is arrogant and rude
if it insists on it's own way
if it is irritable and resentful
if it rejoices in the wrong and not the right
if it does not bear all things, believe all things, hope all things, and endure all things
if it ends...
It's just not love
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