Name: josh
Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:4-5
“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.”
OAP: I was too lazy to go upstairs to get my bible tonight, and just decided to see what biblegateway had for the verse of the day online. Lo and behold, my favorite passage from the bible appears on the screen. I think the word love is thrown around way too often in our society to the point where it hardly has any affect when you say it. "I love fruit loops" holds almost as much meaning as "I love you." And that's sad. Because reading this section reminds me constantly how much you are really saying when you tell someone those three simple, short words. They're made up of only 8 letters, yet formatted to somehow arrange a phrase that describes the most powerful human emotion possible. It's so hard to love like this, the way these verses describe it, to the point where on occasion I almost avoid telling friends I love them because I can't mean it to this extent.
Prayer: Lord, you call us to love in a different way than the world views it, in a way that's not superficial at all, that trusts blindly, that is only concerned with the well-being of others. I have experienced your great compassion first-hand and know how much you care, and wish to be able to love others as you first loved us.
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