The Love You Long For
By Bill Gaultiere © 2010
If you were asked, “What is love?” How would you answer?
Most people define love by expressions of care or generosity, which are essential to love. Or worse, we define love by having desire or emotion. Very few of us would define love as the Apostle Paul did, beginning by saying: “Love is patient…” (1 Corinthians 13:4). Why does Paul focus on patience? For many of us, patience is very difficult! You know the joke, “Never pray for patience!”
Love is patient. Let’s try putting that in some other wording to help us understand what Paul is saying and why he begins there: “Love endures [...]
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