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Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag love is not arrogant, love does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, love does not take into account a wrong suffered, love does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

 

Are these the attributes in your life when it comes to dealing with family, friends, coworkers, people at church, people you meet in the store or how about that person who just insulted you, or cut you off going down the road. When someone does something that annoys you stop and think about your response, and ask your self do I really have love in my heart?

 

If you want to live a life of love then practice doing these things and take them in order, patients is first for a reason, for if you can learn to be patient all ell will fall in to line.

 

i first saw this in 1972, before this time in my life i hated every one including myself, i was dangerous to be around, i would just as soon heart you as to look at you I was disgusted will all mon kind but that is a whole different book.

After a few changes in my life i took a bible and disappeared for ten weeks went up in the mountains and read it, absorbing the words i read and there were some that as i read became a part of me right then and there, this was one of those.

At the moment of read it i knew i was wrong in every relationship i had and that ther was no love for anyone in me and they all knew it.

i made the choice to start practicing love with everyone i came in contact with.

 

After thinking about it decided this was just too much to handle, went to sleep that night and awoke with (start at the begging and just do one at a time) so i did, and failed over and over, then started asking Father God for help when i failed and about nine months later something happened that normally  would have ended with the guy being dealt with but instead i noticed my level of impatiens with him was different, and walked away almost in shock.

From there it got better, no have not got it down pat yet but what i have noticed is the rest of the list has fallen in to line, being patient with people brings about being kind, and not being jealous and that the amount of bragging of what i have done and being arrogant and acting unbecomingly has almost gone away, i do not seek its own way in relationships, i am not as quickly provoked, i don’t seem to care if someone wrong me, i do not except or go along with unrighteousness (sin) as before, and have a feeling of joy with the truth, I have learned I can put up with just about anything, i am not a skeptical of most people (doctors, politicians, and lawyers still questionable), i now have great hope for people, and the greatest thing i have noticed is i can endure anything.

 

Do i still get upset Yes, do i still become impatient at times Yes, but it does not last as long and is something i am still willing to allow the Lord to help me through and it is still getting better.

 

Yea 45 years later and i am still working on loving others but with love being the reason Christ died for me i should be willing to love others, so i keep practicing patients.

Give it a try, you have to be dedicated to something or someone so why not be dedicated to Christ Jesus and to being patient with others, practice love.