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Is it a feeling? Is it an action?
Our society equates love with romance/sex, but is the depth of love reached through sex? Or is true love something deeper than the physical?
In studying the attributes of love described in the "love chapter" (I Corinthians 13), a love that is deep, lasting, and strong is found. I found myself being challenged and convicted as I studied this.
Love is
More than just words
More than just actions
Patient and kind
Humble
Thoughtful of others
A bearer of burdens
Everlasting
Mature
Polite
Rejoices in the truth
Trusting
Out lasts knowledge
Love is not
Boastful
Envious
Arrogant
Rude
Irritable
Resentful
Insistent on its own way
Joyful in wrongdoing
Love is hard. Love is tiring. Love hurts. Love makes you vulnerable. But love is also rewarding!
Nowhere in the Bible does it say that a person must be lovable before we show them love. It doesn't even say that they must act like they want to be shown love. So many people are hurting to be given true love. True love, loves the unlovely.
We sinned against God. We spat in his face. We nailed him to a cross. We did not, nor do we ever deserve anything from him. Yet, he gave the ultimate gift of love - his own life.
What about that person who has hurt you, or the person you find annoying, are you loving them as Christ loved us?
