Men of Fuel
If you have ever been to a wedding the odds are you have heard 1 Corinthians 13: 1-13 read. Heck, odds are you probably had it read at your wedding. For those of you drawing a blank on 1 Cor. 13 : 1-13, these are the verses that talk all about love. Some of the more memorable verses are below.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, 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 trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Now while I have heard that a ton of times, I am not sure I have really ever grasped what the bible is saying about love until I started to drill down and see if that is what love looked like in my life. (it doesn’t). Sure, all of them cause me to pause and think about how I express love, but none more than “It keeps no record of wrongsâ€. In other words, “Love, doesn’t keep scoreâ€. Now if that’s the case, I have a very flawed understanding of love, cause I can keep score with the best of them (which I know because I am keeping score)
Think about that for a bit. You a score keeper? Can you even answer that without keeping score? The first thing I did was start thinking about all of the people that I know that keep score and tried to see if I do it more or less than they do.……….which is keeping score.
But what do we do with that? Meaning what do we do with the score card that we have with our friends, kids, family, wife, co-workers, or anyone else that comes to mind. More importantly how do we react when others respond or are treated contrary to the scorecard that we have been keeping. How does that sit with us?
Come on out tomorrow as we tally up the score in week six of our series. If you haven’t joined us yet, tomorrow would be the perfect time to start
See you in the AM
D.R. Carlson