Have you ever stopped to think about what true love really is? The Bible says in 1 John 4:9-12 “God showed how much He loved us by sending his only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through Him. This is real love. It is not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins. Dear friends, since God loved us that much, we surely ought to love each other. No one has ever seen God. But if we love each other, God lives in us, and His love has been brought to full expression through us.”
Do you love with the love of God? He sacrificed His Son so that we could have eternal life. That is the ULTIMATE act of love. He did that for US and yet we have a hard time having true love.
1 Corinthians 13 gives us the charecteristics of love. Verse 4 starts off with love is patient.. Isn’t that something, the first characteristic and I already failed. I am the most unpatient person in the world. We live in a give it to me now society. We as Americans are the most spoiled people. We want what we want and we want it right then.
It also says love is kind, not jealous, boastful, proud, or rude. Love doesn’t demand its own way, it’s not irritable, and it keeps no record of wrong. It’s never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. It never gives up or loses faith. It’s always hopeful and endures through every circumstance.
I find myself failing in most all of those areas.. There are not enough hours in a day for me to list all the times I fail to show true love.. What about you? Are you showing the world true love? God gave us the best example and gave us the charecteristics.
I am a firm believer that Christians can’t even get along with fellow Christians most of the time. That’s not love at all.  The world doesn’t want what we have because we don’t act any different than they do. If we showed them true love, they would see Jesus in us, and then want what we have. God forgive us for falling short of showing Your love to others.

Love – it’s something I need to work on. What about you?

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