Christmas Time is Near: Day 14 Advent

I Corinthians 13:4-8  Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;  (5)does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; (6)does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; (7)bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. (8)Love never fails...

One of today's questions was "Who do you find it hardest to love?"  An enemy?  A co-worker?  A family member?  A neighbor?



I think every person has at least one such relationship in their life.When we find ourselves struggling hardest to love, it's often someone who is right in our face.  It's never a distant  unknown person is it?  Too often it's someone we must interact with on a near daily basis at the very least and we feel everything in us stretching as we struggle to display that good faith love that the Bible urges us to display.

Sometimes, it's just plain hard.

Today's verse is a good reminder of how God loves.  How He expects us to love.  Sometimes we triumph if we continue to strain towards it.  If we're really expressing love, we can't fail...