According to Jesus showing love is the most important action you can perform throughout your life on this earth, love is an action not a feeling, beings it is an action you can practice it and perfect itLove is:
- Patient
- Kind
- Not jealous
- Does not brag
- Not arrogant
- Does not act unbecomingly
- Does not seek its own way
- Is not provoked
- Does not take into account being wronged
- Does not rejoice in sin
- But rejoices in truth
- Bears all things
- Believes all things
- hopes all things
- Endures all things
Take each one of these and practice them each day, start at the top Patients , patients is not a feeling it is a response an action it is first on the list because it is the most important if you can learn to be patient with others the rest of the list will fall in to line in your life.
(When i ran across this in 1972 i hated everyone my life was the opposite of the list above, i had no patience with anyone. After reading the bible i realized my life was upside down, understanding that I needed to put others before me, considering them as equals to me that I am no better than anyone ells on this earth. Making the choice to take this list and live it out, I started with patience i took each incident in my day and mentally chose to be patient in the situation, it was tuff at first the first year really didn’t do that great but keep trying, the second year was a little better, then someone told me “if you want your life to change when you recognize you are doing something wrong at that moment turn to Christ and ask for His help to change If you are sincere in your heart He will help you just ask and do not doubt He will do it”. and i’m still practicing being patient and am still catch myself and have to go to the Lord and ask for help, but one thing i noticed was that as i lean in to being patient with others the rest of the list just fell in to line, Have i got it down am i perfect, not yet but i at least don’t want to kill every one and have learned to get along with others to treat them as equals, not placing myself above them. )
You can change your attitude, attitude is not a feeling it is action. Go out and practice loving one another.
so go and make your life a life of practicing love.
Side Not::
This is where i comes in, i'm not I am, when righting of myself i is not capitalized because it reminds me of where i stand, not being equal with or above Christ, but a servent of Christ. my importance is in Him and comes from Him.
in school we were told to capitalize names to show importance, (lifting up self) is not what we are to do, so i don't as a reminder to me.