Love Bears All Things

 

I’m Duane Matz and welcome to Today’s Living Word.

 

The greatest proof of the presence of the Holy Spirit in an individual or a congregation is the expression of Holy Spirit directed love. But what does this love look like? Today we’ll continue to look at love as found in the love chapter of the Bible….1 Cor 13!

 

We pick it up in verse 7 where love bears all things. I honestly don’t know where to go with this. I want to say, “what things?” Please Holy Spirit be more specific! But He’s not, he says ALL THINGS.

 

The word “bear” may be helpful us here. According to the Strong’s Concordance, to “bear” is to “roof over, to cover with silence”  

 

Holy Spirit guided love then tells us to put a sock in it when it comes to the  idiosyncrasies of others! In accordance with the preceding passages, we aren’t silent on the matter of sin or silent on the matter of righteous living, but in those little things that may be bothersome to us, we let it slide!

Don’t let those minor flaws of others put a wall of separation between each other. Holy Spirit guided love, doesn’t do that It’s also helpful to remember that in the matter of minor flaws, (ahem) you probably have a few of your own.

 

Let us learn to bear with each other in all our relationships. It’s what the Holy Spirit would have us do.

 

I’m Duane Matz and that’s Today’s Living Word