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To Love Is To Serve
by Chris Cummings on Thursday, Apr 10th, 2008 at 10:48 am

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, 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. -1 Corinthians 13:4-7

We live in a world that becomes more self-centered with each passing day.  We expect and demand that our food be served to us just how we want it and quickly.  We demand that our planes board and depart on time.  We demand that there be no traffic on our way home.  We demand that our jobs owe us more money.  We demand that an offense against us be taken care of immediately.  We demand.  We expect.

The self-centered, ego-centric world we live in demands that every relationship we are in give us something.  We MUST get our good feelings.  We MUST get our needs met.  But I don’t think this kind of expectation is of God…and I don’t think it has anything to do with Love.

We all know 1 Corinthians 13 and what it says about love.  But if we read that carefully and thoughtfully, does our own personal definition of Love fit these verses?  I do not think so. 

I think if we read these verses carefully, we start to see that love has very little, if anything, to do with what WE can get out of a relationship.  Love has to do with serving and expecting NOTHING in return.

Imagine if we started looking at every relationship we have in the light of what we can GIVE to the other person, instead of what we expect to TAKE from the person.  Imagine if we always protected, always trusted, always hoped for the best for the other person.  Imagine if we were never self-seeking.  Imagine if we really did forgive and forget.

When Christ went to the cross, He went out of love.  Stop for a moment and ask yourself, really ask, what reason Christ had to die for you.  Did you give Christ a reason to die for you?  Did you serve Christ in any way that he should die for you?  No!  While we were sinners, while we were giving Christ NOTHING, while we didn’t even acknowledge him, while we mocked him, Christ died for us.  He died in love!  He died in service to those that had given him nothing.

I intend to use these thoughts to constantly remind myself that my life is for giving.  I am confident that if I give of myself without seeking anything, I will be filled and satisfied.  In pouring myself out I will be made full.

Let us all serve in love!

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