We have all read 1 Corinthians 13 many, many times. It is read at weddings as a scripture to model the love in one's marriage after...it was read at ours... I even have it hanging in my house. But do we really follow it?? The part that stuck out to me this morning was verse 5... "It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged". It was like the words were slapping me in the face... hard!! How many times can we say we do just the opposite in own homes, with our own family, the ones we love the most. Maybe I am just writing this for myself and no one else. The people I take out my frustrations with I love the most. My irritability, with everything going on around me, affects those innocent people around me. My husband gets it when he comes home from work when it has nothing to do with him (maybe sometimes he's the culprit). My kids get it when I have an internal issue with myself. Now don't get me wrong, my kids are not perfect and do cause me frustration. However, there is no reason why I should snap at others when I dislike myself or the way my day is going. Wow!! I am really getting correction this morning!!
Then, there's the last statement of the verse... "it keeps no record of being wronged". Yow!! Do we really love this way. Think about the person at work... maybe we don't love them like we love our family BUT we do have to show love to them. That means not keep track of how many times they screw up and no one notices or how many times they wrong us... revenge is out of the question. That ex who treated us like dirt...we gotta let it go. The family member who wronged us... let it go. God gave us the people in our lives for a reason. I have a family member who has wronged me and hurt me in so many ways but I am learning to let it go...I don't want to lash out and hurt them back anymore. I think about times when Mike makes me mad and I think "well you just wait until..." and I stew over it. Or when couples fight and bring up things from the past that the other one has done to them. Just let it go. Love like you wanna be loved!! The golden rule from childhood... treat others as you want to be treated. I have got to work on all this myself!! Why is it we are so rude to the people we share a home with but the people at church or our friends get our best?? Maybe it's because we know those in our home will love us anyway??
I pray that God will really help me in this area of my life. I pray that the holy spirit will give me a little nudge of correction when I mess up. Thank you God for loving me through all my mess ups!! And thank you for giving me a family who loves me through them also.
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