Pursue Love

     I had a Pastor that advised us to be careful about praying for patience, he told us that if we did pray for patience, then we would encounter plenty of things to "help" our patience grow. He didn't warn us to not pray to be "unoffendable" or to grow in "love"! I am warning you now!
     I have prayed for both of those and now I have plenty of opportunities cross my path to exercise and grow in this area. Scripture does tell us to grow in these things, so it's not exactly like we have a choice....you might as well jump in the deep end and start trying to adjust to the shock! No dipping your toes in the shallow end~  =D
     I do think the opportunities are there to grow in love before we pray to grow, but once we say that prayer, the Holy Spirit helps us to become more aware of the selfish ways and conflicts in our hearts. The Holy Spirit is an amazing Teacher, He knows us inside out (must be because He lives inside of us!?) He knows all of the weak places in our spirits that need His "grow" light shined on them, and shine it He does!
     Actually, I said I was going to warn you about saying a prayer to grow in love or to be unoffendable, but that isn't really true. Our Creator does want us to love and we will always need to grow in it, so I advise you to pursue love with all that you are, yes be prepared you will face situations where it is not easy to love but we are not commanded to find and do what is easy, we are commanded to love. Let it be your driving force! and remember, God is love so you are to be also!



Love never stops loving. It extends beyond the gift of prophecy, which eventually fades away. It is more enduring than tongues, which will one day fall silent. Love remains long after words of knowledge are forgotten. Our present knowledge and our prophecies are but partial, but when love’s perfection arrives, the partial will fade away. When I was a child, I spoke about childish matters, for I saw things like a child and reasoned like a child. But the day came when I matured, and I set aside my childish ways.

For now we see but a faint reflection of riddles and mysteries as though reflected in a mirror, but one day we will see face-to-face. My understanding is incomplete now, but one day I will understand everything, just as everything about me has been fully understood. Until then, there are three things that remain: faith, hope, and love—yet love surpasses them all. So above all else, let love be the beautiful prize for which you run. 1 Corinthians 13:8-13

Teacher, which is the great commandment in the Law?” And He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’  This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ Matthew 22:36-39

The whole law is made complete in this one command: “Love your neighbor as you love yourself.” Galatians 5:14