Love is NOT PATIENT.

Love is MEAN AND NASTY AND INCONSIDERATE.

Love gets JEALOUS, and wants what it cannot have.

Love BRAGS, it takes all the credit, and it stands in front of everyone showing how great it is.

Love is PRIDEFUL.  It never admits when it is wrong.  It is too proud to forgive or to give any leeway to someone else’s mistakes.  It wants JUSTICE.

Love is IMPOLITE.  It thinks of itself first and considers no one else.  It gets angry and keeps a log of others’ mistakes.  It never, ever, lets a mistake go unnoticed or forgiven.  It wants REVENGE.

I simply cannot keep writing.  Because this is a hideous description of love.  But this description is what love is when you take Jesus out of the equation.  It is, simply, nothing at all.

Jesus said “I am the way and the truth and the life”.

He said “whoever drinks this water will never be thirsty again”.

He said “go and sin no more”.

And He said, in referring to our hideous sin debt, “it is paid IN FULL”.

Thank God.

Because here is what love is when Jesus is painted over it:

1 Corinthians 13 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part,10 but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.12 Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

This is one of the greatest excerpts in the Bible.  It describes what we cannot be.

But, in Jesus, and by His grace, and in His strength, and with His forgiveness … we can pursue it each, and every, day.

In The Name of the Father and the 

Son and the Holy Spirit.  Amen.

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