What's Love got to do with it?

What’s Love got to do with it?
EVERYTHING!
1 Corinthians 13:1-3
13:1 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
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Did you know that 252 times the word love is found in the NIV translation of the New Testament Bible? Only, 18 times in the NIV translation of the New Testament you will find the word hate.
What does the word Love mean?
This is the worldly ideal of what love means according to the American Heritage Dictionary. Love (l¾v) n. 1. A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness. 2. A feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair; the emotion of sex and romance.

What does the Bible say love means?
1 Cor 13:4-7
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
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The world’s point of view of love makes you think that love is a feeling, but it isn’t Love, is a decision. Your feelings can change with the wind.
When you make a commitment to love people no matter what, it seams like every time you turn around someone does something that really gets your goat. Makes you madder than all get out! It seams people just go plum crazy!
It’s worse when it is your child (adult child) that acts like he just lost his mind. Every logic and common sense just went out the door. I tell ya what happen. I sent my 18-yr. old son to Pittsburgh, PA, in the U.S. army, station in Fort Hood, TX. His grandmother died and he wanted to go to the funeral. He really didn’t know her that well, but he wanted to be there for his father. I work for American Airlines, which helped. And got him a flight to Pennsylvania. He got there on a Monday, and the funeral was on a Tuesday, so he was supposed to fly back on a Wednesday. Sounded good anyway. Come Wednesday I called and had someone check to make sure he got on the flight to come back to Oklahoma. Because if he wasn’t able to get to his flight in DFW than I was going to call my nephew, which lives in Dallas and have him pick him up or take him around until he could get on the next flight. So, they checked for me and my son didn’t get on the plane in DFW, not only that he didn’t get on the plane in Pittsburgh. His flight left out of there at 12:33 in the afternoon and here it was 5:15p.m. He didn’t call or anything. I became concern, I thought something might have happen to him. So, I look up his dad’s phone number to find out what happen. My son’s little sister answered the phone and I ask if my son (Don) was there. She said, "yes" so I ask her if I could talk to him, then she set the phone down and went to go get him. When he came to the phone I asked him why he didn’t get on the plane this morning? He said, "Oh, I forgot." I said, "You forgot! How in world did you forget?" He said, "Oh, huh I got to busy playing with my little sister and I wanted to stay here longer."
I don’t know about you but the words ‘I forgot’ sounded like a lie after he said he wanted to say here longer. It sound liked to me he forgot on purpose. I was mad. I told him that I didn’t believe that he forgot, and that was very inconsiderate of him to leave me hanging like that without even calling to let me know that he didn’t get on the plane. My son is a Christian but he is still in that baby stage. I know one day he will grow up and be a mighty man of valor for Christ. Until then I guess that is where the Word says Love is patients, and he sure is trying mine. So, I asked him when he wanted to come back, and he told me Friday. So, I call my work and got everything changed to Friday. I called him back and gave him the flight number and time which was the same time before but on a different day. Thursday came, and I got a phone call about 9:00p.m. (Which was my bedtime since I had to get up at 4:00a.m.) It was Don. I knew I should have asked God to help me walk in love before I picked that phone up because he told me that Friday wasn’t going to be a good time for him to leave on the plane he told me Saturday was when he wanted to leave. I asked him why? Because he was put on a special flight to get him there and back in the first place since his grandmother died. He started telling me all these excuses why his dad wasn’t able to take him to the airport or any one else in their whole family. Since his sister had to go to the airport anyway on Saturday then he could catch a ride with her.
I blew up! And not just because of this scenario but every time I sent my boys up there and when it came time for them to come home their dad always comes up with excuses for not taking them to the airport. I always had to call my work and change their flight time and day.
I had to repent. I blew it with my love walk that time. Thank God for I John 1:9!
Before, Don finally made it back to Oklahoma I had to ask God to help me walk in love towards him. I didn’t want to recap what happen over the phone to happen at the airport when I pick him up.
I told myself, ’I’m a peacemaker and I made a commitment to walk in love towards everyone. Yes, I blew it on the phone but I asked for forgiveness from my heart. I know that God’s Word is True, 1 John 1: 9
9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
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When you mess up like I did on the phone with my son, you ask for forgiveness and God will forgive. Then stand up, dust yourself off, and keep going, keep trying.
Walking in love isn’t always easy. Just because you mess up doesn’t mean you have the right to give up. Living God way is always better than your own way. I don’t know about you but every time I do it my way it always ends up worst then if I did it God’s way.