Love Is
Love is patient; love is kind; love is
not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way;
it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but
rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all
things, endures all things.
Love never ends. But as for
prophesies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for
knowledge, it will come to an end.
We think of love as an emotion, a
tender feeling, a positive reaction. Feelings cannot be commanded. A mother can
order her child to do something, but she can’t make him react positively. Love
is much more than an emotion. It is an action we choose. We can love others
even though we may not like them, because it is a matter of making a choice. We
can respond obediently to what our Savior directs us to do. He knows that we
are not capable to doing this on our own. That is why He gives us the Holy
Spirit to empower us to a life of loving obedience. With His help, we can learn
to love those we don’t like.
Loving others
requires a heart of obedience to God.
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