l o v e <3

hey y`all
i just got home from recital and we did really good. deanna was there soo, y`all can ask her how i did. haha. well anyway, i did my devotion on love. my favorite love passage in the bible would have to be 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, "Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast. It is not proud, it is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered. It keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always hopes, always preserves." this passage tells us what love truly is. If we love someone, we should act this way towards them. 1 Peter 4:8 says, "Above all love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins" which means we need to love everyone because love can triumph over sin :] "And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." the most important things in our live are faith hope and love. but as this verse says, the greatest of these IS love. without love, we have nothing. and hatred will surely get us no where. 1 John 4:11 says, "Beloved if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another" which means we are to love one another as God loves us. Yes, we should even love our enemies. Ephesians 3:17-19 says, "That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; And to know the love of Christ, which passeth knoweldge, that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God" which means our faith, is rooted in love, and without love we cannot understand what Jesus is trying to teach us. and on that note...
i love y`all!!
God Bless!
- crystal jade