The true love of Christ

Love is patient....love is kind... 1st Corinthians tells us how to love perfectly... but in truth how many of us truly do... How many of us are so caught up in the day to day to personify the love of God in our lives. We are so busy with things to do, places to go and people to see. Ask yourself this question, "How many times do my thoughts turn towards my Savior and the love that He has for me and the people around me?" He is the ultimate personification of love. We love because He first loved us... For God so loved the world.... yet.... how many minutes in our day do we truly exemplify that love? Today, I challenge you, as well as myself, to truly produce the fruit of the Spirit...love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control. Against such there is no law. To produce these brings peace into a trouble world. To show these truly show the love of Christ. 

So with that, I leave you with 1 Corinthians 13. Meditate upon these verses. Let them permeate your heart and mind:

1If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing. 3If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.

4Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud5or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

8Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever! 9Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture! 10But when the time of perfection comes, these partial things will become useless.

11When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. 12Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.

13Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.