High-Level Kind of Love

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Love does not envy, parade itself, is not puffed up, does not behave rudely.  i don't think i've achieved that high-level kind of love, YAH.  i still lack growth and maturity spiritually.  Help me, Heavenly Father, to become more like Jesus.  Agape love is so different than the love that the world offers.  i know that this is the kind of love that should flow from my heart as a believer.  i am to give and give, even though my giving is not even acknowledged.  i have to learn that i don't need to be thank, just to be thankful.  It's my decision to just keep on loving, and the only way i'm going to be able to do that is to be filled by the Holy Spirit.  Seems these days people have forgotten the Holy Spirit.  They tend to think that God and Jesus couldn't possibly have any time for them, when all along the Holy Spirit is already within all of us who have accepted Jesus Christ and who have repented according to God's will.

Love suffers long and is kind...Love does not envy...Love does not parade itself...Love is not puffed up...Love does not behave rudely...Love does not seek its own...Love is not provoked...Love thinks no evil...Love does not rejoice in iniquity...Love rejoices in the truth...Love bears all things...Love believes all things...Love hopes all things...Love endures all things... Love never fails.  

i find lately that i'm not as patient as i could be.  Was i ever?  i have many times over the years thrown in the towel and quit, i need YAH's help in this area even now.  i know plenty about how to quit, so i pray, Heavenly Father, for a good does of Your agape love.  Now hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit who was given to us. -[Romans 5:5]


 

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