“Love is patient and kind, never jealous or envious, never boastful or proud, never haughty or selfish or rude. Love doesn’t demand its own way. It is not irritable or touchy. It does not hold grudges and will hardly even notice when others do it wrong. It is never glad over injustice, but rejoices when truth wins out. If you love someone, you will be loyal to him no matter what the cost. You’ll believe in him and always expect the best of him, while defending him.” (1 Corinthians 13:4 NKJ)
In my books (= mimou) that is a pretty good definition of love..Being loyal, believing in them and expecting the best of them.
"That is how God loves us. No matter how mean or selfish we are, or how many times we settle for our own way of doing things instead of His way—God’s response to us is love. When we truly realize how God, by His mercy, has loved us to the end of our meanness, selfishness and pride, then no matter how heartless another person may be, we can choose to respond to them with love. We can respond to the selfish and rude person with love, because that’s how God responds to us. And we can also respond to all people with love when we choose to see them as a valuable person created in the image of God. Because we are His disciples, we are to love others in the same way that God loves them.
Love is not a feeling; it’s a choice we make that leads to a lovely response toward others.
So how is God teaching us to respond with His kind of love? You guessed it—with sandpaper people. When we can respond in love to the most difficult person we know, then God has done one of His best works in you and me. He’s taught us how to love as He loves."
by Micca Campbell
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