But if I have not love, I am NOTHING

1 Corinthians 13: 1-8

“If I speak in the tongues of men and angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging symbol. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysterious and knowledge, and if I have faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I posses to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rued, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, It keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Love never fails.”

But if I have not love, I am nothing. I think people need to remember that sometimes…

I do NOT like seeing my best friends hurting. It makes me angry….

I feel like this is the case for me a lot. When other people are puddles on the floor I feel like punching someone. Granted, I CAN be the puddle on the floor sometimes, but…right now I’m just angry. I feel like I have so much love in my heart, but when others whom I love are hurting, it just makes my blood boil. Love is supposed to be “not self-seeking” and I despise that people are hurting one another out of selfishness. I feel like everywhere I turn things are being ripped to shreds by selfish people. I know we’re all humans and we can all be selfish, but right now I just want to scream and throw things.

Then I look at the man I’m sitting next to, and my spirit calms down a little. It gives me such great comfort to know we feel the same way about life, and that we will always be doing this thing together. He reminds me of how much God loves me…because if I can feel so strongly about a human being, my mind can’t even begin to paint the picture for itself of what God’s love is like. It’s a little scary, for some reason, but it also gives me so much comfort.

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