February 1st, 2018
1 Corinthians 16: 14
“and do everything
with love.”
Throughout Corinthians Paul always goes back to the concept
that love is the most important thing. He says earlier in the book that “three
things will last forever - faith, hope and love – and that the greatest of
these is love.” Paul really does recognize that love is the most important
aspect of life. It was after all the love of God that sent his son down to save
us (Jesus). Love was the very reason why were created. God wanted us to love
and worship Him in his glory and in return we would love Him. In the old testament
the Lord made what looks to us like a lot of rules, but really, they were all put
in place to keep the Jews safe.
I
recently read a book called A shepherd looks at Psalm 23. In it the author talks
about all the rigorous routines that shepherds must go through to keep his flock
in prime shape. Through out the book he continues to compare us, the children
of God, to the sheep. How God really is our good shepherd and he is constantly
taking care of us. He points us in the direction we should go, keeps us close to
himself and protects us the way a shepherd would.
For a long time, I thought that love was the one thing that
I was quite good at. I was almost prideful about it. I would think to myself
sure they can do this and this, but I am better at loving those around me. The
issue is when ever I got to this point I would always be smacked in the face with
an evil thought about some one around me. Obviously, I wasn’t as amazing at
loving everyone around me like I thought I was. This year has been a time where
you are forced to be with people that you normally might not associate with.
You can’t just run away and hide from your team or classmates. You are
constantly surrounded by people, so you can’t just ignore them. There has been a
lot of learning to love certain individuals that I have met, and I am still
more often than not really bad at it. But I am really trying to keep this verse
do everything with love in my heart so that I don’t get caught up in emotion or
blindly agree with what other people are saying
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