Love The Right Way

Love starts with the small things and then should become all things. Love should be first accomplished with your husband and children and then to everyone you meet. These are two times where the Bible talks about loving others. (Mark 12:28-31; John 13:34-3) If love is something that comes with time, is an emotion, or is something you do once someone has been nice to you, then why and how do we do this to everyone? The point is love is not a feeling . There are plenty of feelings that can come with love but don’t mistake that feeling as love. When a child is born parents often say, “I loved them before they were born.” This is not because it took the baby moving in them to make then feel something which led to love. It is because that parent knew that a life was coming into the world that would need everything from them. That child would depend on nothing but the action of love. The action of that mother putting that baby before everything she wanted or needed. Read these words very slowly and make sure to not pass a word without fully understanding what action it requires for from you. You never know when we have all used a word thousands of times a day and not have known what it really meant.

“Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.” (NRSV, 1 Corinthians 13:4-8)

Let us end with a translation for comprehension and application purposes. Love is an act of being patient, being kind. You should not be jealous of someone else or a possession. You should not brag about your doings like they are any better than someone else’s and you should not be rude. You should not act on having it like Burger King gives it. You should not be irritated by little things your friends, family, husband, or children do but yet except them for who they are. You should not carry on about something someone did wrong but rejoice in the way you handle the situation with love. Your actions should speak with positive attitude and hopefulness. You actions should speak loudly that you can endure all things. Your actions should be the strength to who you are as a person.