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God’s been teaching me a lot lately so I thought I’d let you in on a smidgen of it. Here’s part of a journal entry and some recent epiphanies….


 


On a recent dreary day off, a group of us decided to go to downtown Bucharest to have individual quiet time in a coffee shop. While sipping on a perfectly foamed latte, God started talking to me about love.






 


 

Earlier, in the taxi to the café, I had the question- Do I feel loved? I didn’t feel like trying to answer that in the taxi so once I got settled with my latte and journal, I dug a little deeper. I’m not an extremely sensitive person so that question is a little harder for me. What DOES love feel like for me? Do I even feel it at all? How then do I know I’m loved? I decided to get to the root of it and find out what God says love is by looking into 1 Corinthians 13. The Love Passage. I’ve heard it read so many times but God had something new for me. As I read it, He showed me that love is simply so much more than a feeling. In that chapter, actions are used to define love, not feelings. Feelings sometimes fade or change but you can always choose to show love by actions. True love isn’t a feeling but a continual choice in how you treat others. Not to say a feeling isn’t valid but there’s just so much more to it than that.

 


Here’s what I came up with about love in my own take on the love passage-


 


Love is more than saying “I love you.�


Love is more than having a lot in common.


Love is more than butterflies in your stomach.


Love is more than a kiss or holding hands.


Love is more than finding a relationship or getting married.


 


Love is patience and kindness.


Love lets you laugh and talk and cry and hold on as long as you need to.


Love calls you out when you withdraw.


Love is scoreless and humble.


Love chooses to treat you as God’s child even when you aren’t acting like it.


Love is selfless and loyal.


Love calls out the best in you but accepts you as you are.


Love is truth and hope and perseverance.


Love always protects, always trusts.


Love never fails.


 


Humans are not perfect and therefore cannot express perfect love.


God is perfect.


God is love.


God is perfect love.


 


Reading through the passage in the Bible and this list I made here, your natural instinct is to apply this to human relationships. God blew my mind though and had me reread the passage and apply it to how He loves me. Now you do it! Read through the love passage or the middle part of mine and replace “love� with “God�. I got all full of warm fuzzies when I read it that way.


 


 


God is patient and kind with me when I doubt Him and am full of questions.


God doesn’t keep score of how many times I screw up.


God always protects me and I can always trust Him.


God will never fail me.


 


Sometimes, I think if it’s so hard for me to grasp human love, how am I to ever grasp the love that the Creator of the universe has for little old me? God has shown me now that I can have faith in this passage and rely on His actions in my life, even if I don’t always “feel� it. I don’t even have to always worry about trying to grasp the fullness of His love, I think that’s impossible. I think for now, God just wants me to bask in it and start believing it.