Love

1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. Love does not demand it's own way. Love is not irritibale and keeps no record of when it has beeen wronged. It is never glad about injustice but rejoices in the truth. Love never gives up, never loses faitth, is always hopeful and endures through every circumstance.

Love does not demand it's own way...
Love doesn't always mean getting what you want. Love often looks like death. Jesus loved us so much that he died so that we might be free and gain life through his death. Often when we think of love, we think of laughter, joy and roses. These are parts of love. But sometimes love means letting go of the things that we want, letting go of our desires, and sacrificing them for the benefit of others. Romans 12 says to take delight in honoring one another in love. Love is often doing what is hard, not what is easy. We have made love so romantic, we have made it something so light and airy. But deep love is not so much romantic as it is sacrificial. And the greatest example of this love is Christ's love for his bride. Do you think it was easy to give up his will, his fear, his comfort? Do you think he found it easy to die for people who may never even love him back? It says he was sweating blood in the garden as he prayed asking God to "take this cup away from me" before he went to the cross. That's hard love. That's perfect love.

Father teach us to walk in perfect love.