Chidish Love? Mature Love?

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 put aside childish things. For now we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, as I am fully known.

Now these three remain: faith, hope, love. But the greatest of these is love. 1Cor 13:11-13

 

When I approach the Christian life from a childish perspective, what is in it for me, I am missing the point. Reasoning like a child, thinking like a child is very small and limited. There is no insight, no depth of understanding. there is only: I am hurt, you hurt me, stop it or I want to leave.

 

Love that revolves around what I get, is small, it is limited. Love that revolves around the picture that Christ sees is broader and more gracious.

 

Tomorrow I have another confrontation. I am having to contain my thoughts and emotions or I will mess things up. God know what the best outcome is, not me. Amen! When hurt it is easy to fall into the retaliation camp-not a good place!