We're so quick to say, 'it's OK if you're neither pretty nor healthy, it's OK if you're always late or you cook bland foods, it's OK if you move slow..I'm OK with your flaws'. But what if the person's flaws are something that hurts you? What if she does something unconsciously that hurt you? Can you forgive and love still? Or give up and say 'it's too tiring to love this person because I'm hurt'.
Let's admit it : we're selfish. When something is inconvenient for us, when we're hurt, we stop and drop everything and let the relationship we said we 'love' and 'treasure' shatter to the ground. We always see ourselves as the victim, we say 'I've loved too much, I've given too much'
Why is it like that? Where's the love in 1Corinthians 13?
1 Corinthians 13:4-8(here's another version of the verse from English standard version)
4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;[a] 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things,endures all things.8 Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
Love is enduring the pain it comes with. Nobody said love is pain-free. We decorated love so much that when we see the ugly, tattered side of the person we claimed to love, we step back and run away in disgust. Everyone is flawed and that is the loud booming truth.
“I don’t know a perfect person.
I only know flawed people who are still worth loving.”
John Green
Isn't love embracing the good with the bad? Didn't Jesus embrace us when we're stinking in sin?
If Jesus, the Son of God, gave everything even his life to save you, nothing we give is too much, even love.
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