Daily writing prompt

Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often?

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Love — how neglected and misunderstood it is. Love’s not an emotion; it’s unending devotion.

Love is patient, but it’s not complacent. It grieves when people embrace guilt producing and self-destructive behaviors.

Love’s not blind, but it is kind. It’s not about approving someone’s behavior; it’s about improving their behavior by speaking the truth with compassion.

Love’s not envious or devious. It celebrates when people do well and doesn’t try to undermine them. It’s not jealous or vindictive. It doesn’t boast and it’s not proud.

Love doesn’t dishonor people. It treasures them even when it disagrees with them. To love is to “consider others better than yourself.” It’s not self-seeking.

Love is slow to anger. It doesn’t keep a list of the ways that it has been wronged.

Love doesn’t delight in evil, no matter who does it or how strongly they attempt justify it. Love always celebrates objective truth and holds it far above people’s thoughts, feelings, desires, and opinions even when it knows it will be rejected for speaking up for righteousness.

Although people say that love is weakness, it never fails. It always protects, always trusts God, and always hopes for people’s healing, reconciliation, and heart transformation.

What’s love got to do with it? Everything! “Love one another.”

To hate is darkness.
But love is great light.
Hate causes blindness.
Love releases sight.
To behold God’s light
Look in people’s eyes
Notice His image
Looking back at you
Until His love shows
And freely flows
From within your heart.
(1 John 1:9-11)

Will you live within
The presence of God
Or attempt to hide
And hold to your sin?
(1 John 1:7)

You are now invited to enjoy a never-ending heart-connection with God because of what Christ has done. Comfortable Christians who refuse to deny themselves, who won’t consistently do what Jesus says, who compromise with the culture around them, and who want God’s blessings more than His ongoing presence, cannot produce a bountiful harvest of the fruit of the Spirit. (Matthew 13: 18-21) The first fruit of the Spirit listed is love. (Galatians 5:22-23)