The Apostle Paul’s great hymn of love in First Corinthians is a description of Christian love, for it is a description of Jesus Christ. It begins, “Love is patient and kind, love is not jealous or boastful …” and so on. But if we take out the word “love” and put in His Name, it fits perfectly:
Jesus is patient and kind; Jesus is not jealous or boastful; He is not arrogant or rude. Jesus does not insist on His own way; He is not irritable or resentful; He does not rejoice at wrong, but rejoices in the right. Jesus bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things (I Cor. 13:4-7).
For the Christian, the very word for love means Christ-likeness. It refines and enriches
all our other loves.
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