Friday, November 6, 2009

Love is patient, kind, God-Wait what?

A random thought popped into my head during church last week. A friend of mine sitting next to me, had his Bible open to 1 Corinthians 13, the ever so favorite love verses highlighted. How often have we sat and pondered upon this chapter? Sat and wondered what the love we have, could have or will have for a person will be like? I know many times i have. How much of a wonderful feeling it must be! To love someone and for them to love you back! but then a thought came to me. Just a random little flutter that creeped into my brain. What if all this time, the talk of how love is in the chapter hasn't been about loving a wife, a husband, a family member or a brother/sister in the Lord? What if it were none of these but what if the love was for God? What if we have been so self involved thinking of what it means to love someone else and them loving us that we missed it? What if that's the answer? Currently I am reading a book on love, and dating and each time I read it I expect an answer to knowing what love is, how you fall in love, etc. But no each and every time the author has it come down to the same thing: Submit to God's will and love him. Its never about you finding love its about God showing it to you on HIS time. To be honest i have no idea what point I am trying to make here, none at all. Interpret as you will. Could be looking at how you are with God, how much you have submitted to God, or even reading those verses again and thinking on it yourself. I mean you could even say that you should love all of those listed above, of course, but first and foremost God and I think we completely overlook God when we think of Love. We say we love God in worship, chapel, church, when we are being faced with a midterm we didn't study for, etc. But have you ever just prayed or stopped and say "i love you Lord?" or to think of His love for you? To be honest I don't enough. So interpret as you may and I believe you know where to find me in the need of stoning or burning me at the stake. Thank you.

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