11/30/22 PERFECT LOVE IS HOW WE LOVE OTHERS

11/30/22 PERFECT LOVE IS HOW WE LOVE OTHERS

Throughout the Bible, God has made it clear that love, perfect love is the fulfilling of the law.

However, people err in focusing on other people's love rather than their own love. If we love with God's love we are going to love others whether they love us or not. We will love with forgiving love accepting love, undemanding love, selfless love.

The person who is always worried about being loved needs to read and heed this passage.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13
1 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
4 Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth (promotes) not itself, is not puffed up (proud, boastful),
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.
8 Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.
11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
12 For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
13 And now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

This passage is intended to serve as a mirror, for self examination, not as probe to examine and analyze other people.