My, my, it has been a while since I posted to my blog--over a year! I hope to do a better job, starting today.
So what has been on my mind lately? Well, I can always depend on God to put on my mind what HE thinks is important-- and his method is most often through my experiences.
True love has been on my mind the last couple of days, but I have come to realize that it is not always present in my heart. I believe that God has signed me up for a new class that he is teaching and it is called, REAL LOVE 101. My first lesson starts in I Corinthians 13:4. I will not add any of my own thoughts because I am just the student; but instead over the next ten days or so, I will share my reading assignment from Matthew Henry's commentary. This Scripture interpretation by him, has shown me that I truly know nothing much about what True Love from God's perspective is. My goal is to learn and try to exhibit it more every day. I guess if I pass the course, I will look a little more like Jesus.
Lesson 1: 1 Corinthians 13:4- Love is patient (long suffering)...
The apostle gives us in these verses some of the properties and effects of charity, both to describe and commend it, that we may know whether we have this grace and that if we have not we may fall in love with what is so exceedingly amiable, and not rest till we have obtained it. It is an excellent grace, and has a world of good properties belonging to it. As,
I. It is long suffering - makrothumei. It can endure evil, injury, and provocation, without being filled with resentment, indignation, or revenge. It makes the mind firm, gives it power over the angry passions, and furnishes it with a persevering patience, that shall rather wait and wish for the reformation of a brother than fly out in resentment of his conduct. It will put up with many slights and neglects from the person it loves, and wait long to see the kindly effects of such patience on him.
Please come back tomorrow for Lesson 2.
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