I’ve found that I’m more open to God’s love when I’m weak. More grace operates in my life when I’m weak as well.
I have to say that the more the Lord shows me that I need to have more of His love in my heart, the easier life becomes. Life becomes more enjoyable and less stressful. I’m a better husband, father and neighbor. My mind slows down, it has more peace, and I can relax more. I listen more, I’m more patient, compassionate, have more Godly wisdom and understanding, and I’m more gentle. His love reminds me of how wonderful it is to be loved by someone who is allowing God’s love to live through them.
God’s love brings a lot of comfort to us if we’ll ask Him to produce it in our lives and yield to it each time He shows us how to live it out. What a blessing God’s love is to all it touches.
The Way of Love
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians Chapter 13
God bless,
Mark