Love, Love, Love

As I sit here in the corner of an old, creaky farm house, I am thinking of my life. I am thinking of the people who love me, the people who like me, and the people who hate me. I guess it is only natural to have all three, but that's not God's way. Sure you may not get along with everyone you meet or even want to hang out with them. So then what should a God type of relationship with that person look like?

1 Corinthians 13: 4-8 says it like this:

⁴ I endure long and is patient and kind; I am never envious nor boil over with jealousy, I am not boastful or vainglorious, I do not display myself haughtily.

⁵ I am not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); I am not rude (unmannerly) and do not act unbecomingly. I do not insist on my own rights or my own way, for I am not self-seeking; I am not touchy or fretful or resentful; I take no account of the evil done to me [I pay no attention to a suffered wrong].

⁶I do not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoice when right and truth prevail.

⁷ I bear up under anything and everything that comes, I am ever ready to believe the best of every person, my hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and I endure everything [without weakening].

⁸ God's Love in me never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end].