True Love Starts with Patience
Patience presses pause on the heart’s wrath so better things can come.
A famous passage defines love:
“Love is patient, love is kind,” is how it begins. The first word to define love is “patience.” –1 Corinthians 13
A famous passage defines love:
“Love is patient, love is kind,” is how it begins. The first word to define love is “patience.” –1 Corinthians 13
Patience paves the road from difficulty to peace.
We want change now. But thankfully God is so much more patient, with us and with others. It’s patience that allows space for all of us to grow—to make mistakes and start over again.
Are you ever hard on yourself?
In a small poll, here are some things people beat themselves up over.
- Eating too much
- Not being disciplined, not gettings things done
- Drinking too much
- Overspending—not managing money well
- Not being able to maintain or lose weight
- Regret over things said
- Guilty pleasures
- Making the wrong decision
- Saying the wrong thing
- Not being where you think you should be in work or life
Can you relate?
God is patient with you.
No matter what you’ve done, if you haven’t been struck by lightning, God is still giving you a second chance. Receive God’s patience over the burdens you carry.
Lord, we thank you for your patience.
Deep Dive into the Healing Power of Proactive Love
Many people think of love as just a feeling or regard for someone else. But the Bible teaches that love is manifested in action, not feelings. Acting in love builds feelings of peace, comfort, and affection; and it’s a powerful healing force that can be learned.
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1 Corinthians
A Bible study revealing that genuine spiritual maturity is found not through status and recognition but through faith, hope, and love.
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God’s Love is a powerful healer. Read the whole passage below:
“”If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, 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.
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. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 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 the ways of childhood behind me. For now we see only a 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.
And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
“Love is patient, Love is kind.”
God’s love is kind—learn more about this second powerful weapon against pain and hardship.
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