Some Talk about Love

"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. Love never fails..." 1 Corinthians 13:4-8a

American society has a terrible habit of dulling words. For my parent's generation, saying, "You Suck" was a huge insult, on par with the four letter words we throw around today. This dilution of meaning has affected "Love", to the great detriment of our understanding.

I'm going to be writing several posts about Love. I'm going to be dissecting this and other passages about Love. But for openers, I thought that I'd share this. God's love is not the soft, squishy kind of love so often portrayed in bad movies. No, the sort of Love that Paul's talking about in this passage is not that kind of Love at all.

God's love is... different. God's love embodies all of these qualities, and as Christians, we're supposed to live a life which does the same. I'll be talking more about that in the days to come. But, in the mean time, I give you this. God is Love. The world is to know we belong to God because of our love. I know that I fail at love much of the time, but I'd like to be known as a man who kept trying.