#23. Women Need Love - Act 2

Is any wedding ever complete without the scripture reading of 1 Corinthians 13(below)? This should be required reading during premarital counseling, along with an accompanying dissertation.

Sometimes humans believe that the Eros love they feel will carry them through every situation but that is backwards thinking. Romance is great and it gives us the desire to get to know one another better and it is a very pleasing part of a relationship, but it is not the end all. The unconditional, Agape love, which the apostle Paul describes in a chapter dedicated to itself, is the TRUE love that will keep the bonds of matrimony forever. In fact this love is for all mankind and all situations.

But love is too often misconstrued. People think they love but if they would cross check their actions with the words below, they might learn that they have more love yet to give.

Love is not easy, it is intentional . “LOVE” is the ultimate Inspired Action. Love is always a verb.

1 Corinthians 13:Love
1If I speak in the tongues[a] of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,[b] but have not love, I gain nothing.

4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

9For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. 11When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. 12Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.