By: Grace Metzger
I recently read this verse and it got me thinking. It’s
very easy to say that you love others, everyone claims to have love for others, but to actually show love with our actions is a different story. I tried
looking back at my actions, was I showing love? Was I showing love when I got
mad at the car driving slow in front of me? Was I showing love when I snapped
at my family members in anger? Looking back at my actions just this week had me
rethinking my claim of loving others. I knew that this needed to change so I
went to see what the Word said about loving others and, not to my surprise,
there were plenty of verse to choose from about showing love to others.
Love is patient
and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful
or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is
not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.
1 Corinthians 13:4
This was my favorite verse that I found in my search for how
to start loving others like God calls me to. This verse literally gives us a
definition of love and how it should look. Love is patient and kind, not
getting angry at your partner for taking forever to respond to a text. Love is
not jealous or boastful, not getting resentful at your friend who has a better
job then you. God knew us, and this includes me, well enough to know that we
would need a reminder of how love should actually look. This verse goes on to
say,
Love never
gives up, never loses faith,
is always hopeful, and endures through
every circumstance.
1 Corinthians 13:7
Think of all the way your life could change by having this kind of love for others. How many friendships could have been saved. How many
relationships could change for the better. To start living you life with the kind
of love that 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 calls is to would be to live life the way God calls us
to. This is so important that the Bible evens say in 1 Corinthians 13:3, “If
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.” This
is how important it is! It’s so important that no matter what you sacrificed,
no matter what you do if you do not have love then you will have gained
nothing.
Developing this kind of love isn’t easy and doesn’t happen
overnight. It takes time, patience, and a lot of work. But don’t let that discourage
you from doing it! The reward is worth it. The new relationships you will
create and the current ones that you will change by loving like God calls us to
will improve your life in so many ways. God wants us to have that type of life.
He is calling you and me today to start loving others like this.
Discussion questions:
1.)
What is your favorite verse that talks about
loving others?
2.)
How do you think this will affect your
relationships?
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