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Love Always Assumes The Best!!!

Would you like to know something about love? Well, love has no limits! Love never says, "You've gone too far. I can't love you now." Christlike love leaves no doubt in the mind of the other that we will continue to love steadfastly. Do those close to us know that they can fail in anything and everything and yet, still have our love? Do people know that, even when they hurt us, we still love them, holding nothing against them?

"Love...bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things." 1 Corinthians 13:7.

Friends, "All things" means exactly that! Everything is included! Love always assumes the best about others. If somebody inadvertently offends us, we choose to believe the offense was unintentional. If someone seeks to harm us, we "bear all things," choosing to forgive unconditionally. If a positive light can be shed on a difficult encounter, we grasp it! If somebody continually provokes us, we "endure all things." We never lose hope in the ones we love! We must and should always practice the same unconditional love towards others that Christ gives to us!

Paul said that he was nothing if he had the faith to move mountains, the tongues of angels, and the gift of prophecy, but did not have God's love. It is unacceptable for us to say that we just can't love people that way! We must remember that God does not have to love us that way either, but He does. We must also remember that before Christ came into our lives, we were just like them too! Read and re-read 1 Corinthians 13! Understand and accept with gratitude that God has already expressed this complete and selfless love to us. Pray and ask Him to express it through us to others!

May God Richly Bless You Today!! H Trent!

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