“Love is large and incredibly patient. Love is gentle and consistently kind to all. It refuses to be jealous when blessing comes to someone else. Love does not brag about one’s achievements nor inflate its own importance.”1 Corinthians 13:4 TPT
We do not understand love being large and patient, if we are honest. Our love ebbs and flows according to how a person makes us feel. If they are being difficult our love is tested.
Our kindness also ebbs and flows according to how we feel. If we have spent a lot of time with the Lord we might see more kindness and patience, however, spend a week with the devils kids and all is lost. Irritability exhibits with tiredness.
Our love does not stop us from being jealous, only the abiding presence of God does that. When we are blessed we tend to brag thinking God has finally got it right, I am his best kid. Ha!
The Holy Spirit is love personified. As I yield to Him all is well. Jesus told His disciples to abide:
“Remain in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me.”
John 15:4 NLT
The answer then is: remain or abide in Him! Amen!
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