All you need is love.
1 Corinthians 13 is having a huge impact in my way of thinking right now.
Its the “love chapter”.
I encourage you to read it before you continue reading this. Don’t have a bible? Then use this awesome site called Biblegateway.
When I look at my life, I can see plenty of relationships that are strained, or worse yet, broken. Some of these relationships are easier to work on than others. This is due primarily to me not being the best team player (although I’m really trying to work on it). In some cases, these relationships take hard work or patience to patch up- and apparently, I’m unwilling to wait.
If I’m trying to patch up a relationship with someone that I can honestly say I love, why is it so hard? Why do I end up feeling like if I do one thing for that person, they should somehow repay me in kind- as if we are supposed to meet each other half way? Why can’t I walk the extra mile to fix it?
I need to firmly commit myself- equipped with all of the love and patience God will give me- to fix these broken relationships.
Going to be a rough time, but I feel good about it.
jimmypurchase said,
March 4, 2008 at 5:17 am
A great book of the bible that gives a great definition of biblical love is 1st John. The word love opened up to me in new ways when I read and studied both 1st John and 1st Corinthians 13 together.