Today we're launching a brand new series called "Love Life." Do you love life? How is your love life? Is it rich? Is it full?
We're going to talk about our love lives based on 1 Corinthians 13, beginning with verse 7: "Love bears all things. Love believes all things. Love hopes all things. Love endures all things." In other words, love believes!
Let's juxtapose that with 1 John 4:18 that says, "Perfect love casts out all fear." Have any fear in your life? I'll bet you do. Struggle with fear? Fear of paying the mortgage, fear of keeping your job, fear of your relationship or your marriage falling apart. What are you afraid of today? "Perfect love casts out all fear," says 1 John 4:18.
The opposite of fear is faith. Everybody knows that. But this verse tells us that the opposite of love is fear. You cannot have love without faith. Love that casts out all fear is a love that believes. The question is: What do you believe in, whom do you believe in? Because, you see, everybody believes in something, even if it's nothing. Let me say that again. Everybody believes in something even if it's nothing. Because even a belief in nothing is still a belief.
So, we all believe in something, but what do you believe in? Whom do you believe in? The Bible verse says, "love believes," and I would ask love believes what? Do you believe the best or do you believe the worst? I trust that this passage is telling us that love believes the best. And we have a choice; you always have a choice as to what you will believe in, whom you will believe in. Love believes the best, St. Paul tells us, the best in others.
By Sheila Schuller Coleman
We're going to talk about our love lives based on 1 Corinthians 13, beginning with verse 7: "Love bears all things. Love believes all things. Love hopes all things. Love endures all things." In other words, love believes!
Let's juxtapose that with 1 John 4:18 that says, "Perfect love casts out all fear." Have any fear in your life? I'll bet you do. Struggle with fear? Fear of paying the mortgage, fear of keeping your job, fear of your relationship or your marriage falling apart. What are you afraid of today? "Perfect love casts out all fear," says 1 John 4:18.
The opposite of fear is faith. Everybody knows that. But this verse tells us that the opposite of love is fear. You cannot have love without faith. Love that casts out all fear is a love that believes. The question is: What do you believe in, whom do you believe in? Because, you see, everybody believes in something, even if it's nothing. Let me say that again. Everybody believes in something even if it's nothing. Because even a belief in nothing is still a belief.
So, we all believe in something, but what do you believe in? Whom do you believe in? The Bible verse says, "love believes," and I would ask love believes what? Do you believe the best or do you believe the worst? I trust that this passage is telling us that love believes the best. And we have a choice; you always have a choice as to what you will believe in, whom you will believe in. Love believes the best, St. Paul tells us, the best in others.
By Sheila Schuller Coleman
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