Love is a Living Being
Bible Reading 1 Cor 13:4- 13:7
We see the true definition of Love in the above Bible passage. Among the greatest of all gifts of the Spirit, Love has the first place. Instead of looking at Love as one of the characteristics of a good Person, we should understand Love as a living being. The phrase, 'God is Love and in love He had created everything' is familiar to us which explains love as the Person of God. We need to be imitators of this love, which means we should become love to love others.
In the beginning of the verse from the above passage, we read 'Love suffers long. Love is kind; it is not jealous. Love does not brag and is not puffed up;.....This makes sense, when we look at Love as a living entity. Love itself has characteristics of its own. It makes even greater sense when we replace the word love with our names. Understand the above portion of the scripture by replacing your names with the word 'Love'. This is what you should aim to achieve in the Lord in your Christian life.
Do not love others with your natural love which will sooner or later is destined to fail. Love others with Jesus Christ, who is the Love of God. When we love others with the Love of God, it will never fail and we will bring glory to God. Under such a setup, the demands of the love as mentioned in the verse, will not be a burden to us, but it will be so natural to us that we will not feel even the slightest pain. Such a love will be flowing from a Christ filled life effortlessly as a natural response. The bottom line is that we should aim to gain more Christ which will result in a natural flowing of pure love like fountains of cool spring in an arid desert from us. Hallelujah.
