My definition of Love (+The Holy Bible of Love)

At the beginning of this new year, this new year of the turn around and year of double favor, I had been reading the Word of God and asking Him to teach me more of who He is. He led me to 1 Corinthians 13:4-8. There, I found such a lovely explanation of what love is. More specifically, what God's love in us really means.

I found out that love endures until the very end - that no situation or circumstance, no distraction or problem can turn us away from the ones we love. I saw that love is being kind and patient even in the most trying of circumstances. It is never supposed to have us being jealous or envious because the ones we love are accomplishing in areas of their lives where we are not. We are not supposed to be boastful because of our achievements so that the ones we love might feel inferior or beneath us. We are not supposed to be puffed up with pride (the feeling where we are better than everyone else) if we love. It is not selfish / self-seeking. If we love with a pure heart then we are not permitted to be about self, but about others. Love affords us the opportunity to pay no attention to a suffered wrong. It does not cause us to be happy and rejoice when our loved ones are suffering, even if we think its their own fault. It causes us to believe in people and strengthens our hope in the things we believe in. Love endures everything and remains without weakening. It is not subject to conditions and most importantly, it never fails! When we love with the love of God in us, we can endure hardships, hurts and pain without loving the wrong doer any less. 

We are not blameless. Many times a day we hurt God...we fail Him. But, He does not love us any less. The love He has for us is pure. It is not based on conditions, that is, if we do everything right to please Him. His love for us never weakens even though we continue to succumb to our flesh. This is the kind of love we should have towards each other. Pure and untainted love.