February’s
Awakening, Day 14
Love never claims, it ever gives; love
never suffers, never resents, never revenges itself. Where there is love there
is life; hatred leads to destruction.
—Mahatma Gandhi
Joy is love exalted; peace is love in
repose; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society;
goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love
in school; and temperance is love in training.
—D. L. Moody
Love
is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
It does not dishonor others, 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.
1 Corinthians 13:4–8a NIV
This is
agape, the vertical love between God and mankind and the horizontal love
between our brothers and sisters of humanity. This is the ideal love, the true
love—that by which the Father sent His one and only Son to be our saving grace
through His sacrifice on the Cross. True love binds all our noble
characteristics together and allows them to work in a concerted unison. Love is
the ingredient that works within and throughout every aspect of our thoughts,
words, actions, and emotions to bring clarity, balance, and temperance to our
entire human existence. Love also helps to keep all those not so noble
characteristics that we possess, in restraint. Love gives us stability and
equilibrium to make appropriate choices throughout this treacherous journey of
life. It is like the life-giving blood within us, ever flowing, renewing, and
restoring, and without love, just like our blood, we would soon perish and die.
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