1 Corinthians 13: 4-7


Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

If love was an investment, be prepared to bankrupt. For who is to say your love must be reciprocated? But that is the essence of the most over and under-used four letter word in the English dictionary - That you do not love for spoils, you do not love to be loved. You love because He first loved.

Love always perserves. Don't love if you are not in it for the long haul. Don't love if along with it tag conditions.

Your conditions mean nothing in the eyes of He who matters.

Love the despicable, the destitutes. Love the immature, the annoying. Love the one who doesn't catch your eye. Love is a gift. A key that unlocks the chains of your hardened hearts. The hurts inflicted upon you can and will heal if only you let them. Holding on cause scars, ugly scars that will haunt, that will lurk in the shadows and devour you.

Love covers a multitude of sins. Yes, sins.
They sin against you, but did you not sin against them?
But love, oh love, it cleanses from within.