Friday, October 31, 2014

Crazy Little Thing By: KB © 10.31.14





I read this devotional from Our Daily Bread and it just confirmed so many things that have been flooding my brain and that I have been working through for some time now. This “crazy little thing called love” is not so crazy after all it’s just that we’re not willing to see or accept it as it should be.
Love is not as elusive and as exclusive as we like to tell ourselves. Real honest to goodness love is selfless. Real honest to goodness love is when you put the other person’s happiness and well being above your own and they will do the same for you, it works.

We have somehow gotten away from this very basic concept with a “what have you done for me lately?” mindset. Real honest to goodness love keeps no tabs and hold no grudges. We must learn to forgive…not for the other person but for ourselves and our spiritual well being.
I read something the other day that made me laugh out loud because it was a perfect example of how we view love. I’ll paraphrase the basics:

  1)     Do you love me?
  2)    I’d take a NERF bullet for you

We run or get bitter and hold resentments when we are called upon to make personal sacrifices in love. We keep tabs and wait for the payback. We believe that life is not supposed to intrude on our happiness. (the word happiness is another preach, for another time) We believe that who we choose should respond to situations the way that we would or want them to.

We must go after God with the same zeal and intensity as we go after who we desire. We must guide and develop the maturation of our understanding of what it means to love.

John 3: 16-17
16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

 John 15: 13 – 17
13 Greater love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit—fruit that will last—and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you. 17 This is my command: Love each other.
The greatest gift of this life is to be able to lead in a relationship in such a way that reflects Christ and His love for you.

Last but by no means least….

1 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. 2 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. 3 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.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 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. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 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. 12 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.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.


1 Corinthians 13 is the perfect definition of real honest to goodness love ….I embrace it an I am no longer willing to take imitations, knock off’s, close enough, good enough or reasonable facsimiles….I am promised a full inheritance.

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