Love

What if God loved and then took it back.
Is that the way we'd expect love to act.

What if in one more day someone would turn to Him.
only to find that their struggle rest solely on whim.

The patience of Gods' love must be greater you see.
More patient with Himself than we think it should be.

To say it was love and then take it back...
What kind of love would you call that.

Adding conditions that if just one could not achieve,
Can that be the love which our God could perceive.

The kindness of love must be more than we would admit.
To have loved even those whom would never submit.

The envious in love which we do sometimes find,
couldn't be further from the true love divine.

And boasting in love isn't in what He sent.
Once felt in the heart one can only repent.

Even success felt in love makes us conceited,
when focus is taken from Him whom is seated.

When our struggle to love has made us seem rude,
It wasn't His love we were trying to exude.

When love isn't returned as we think it fair-keeping,
It's only because our intent was self-seeking.

And what love can account for any wrong done,
when no one was guiltless save Gods' only Son.

Has love ever rejoiced at injustice and unrighteousness.
not by Our Father, whom hates all ungodliness.

Gods' love rejoices when right and truth prevail,
and sent us His Spirit so that these He'll unveil.

Easiest to tell loves nature from all of it's sum,
is that real love bears up under anything to come.

His love is ever ready to believe the best of every person,
for all are the object of His great compassion.

Under all circumstances loves hopes never fade,
believing in the fact that in each Christ has prayed.

You see... Gods' love endures everything and all else pales.
Surrender your all, for Gods' love never fails.

By: Preston Pittman from 1 Cor 13

Beloved, let us love one another, for love springs up in the heart from God; and he who loves his fellow man is born of God... He is progressively coming to know and understand God... to perceive and recognize and get a better and clearer knowledge of Him.

He who does not love has not become acquainted with God. He does not and never did know Him, for God is love. In this... the love of God was made manifest (displayed) where we are concerned: in that God sent His Son, the only begotten (unique) Son, into the world so that we might live through Him. In this is love: not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation... the atoning sacrifice for our sins.

Beloved, if God loved us so very much, we also ought to love one another. No man has at any time yet seen God. But if we love one another, God abides... lives and remains in us and His love... which is essentially His, is brought to completion... to its full maturity, runs its full course, and is perfected in us!

By this we come to know... to perceive, recognize, and understand, that we abide (live and remain) in Him and He in us: because He has given (imparted) to us of His Holy Spirit. And besides, we ourselves have seen... have deliberately and steadfastly contemplated, and bear witness that the Father has sent the Son as the Savior of the world.

Anyone who confesses (acknowledges, owns) that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides... He lives and makes His home in him and he abides, lives, and makes his home in God. And we know (understand, recognize, are conscious of, by observation and by experience) and believe... We adhere to and put faith in and rely on the love God cherishes for us.

God is love, and he who dwells and continues in love dwells and continues in God, and God dwells and continues in him. In this union and communion with Him love is brought to completion and attains perfection with us, that we may have confidence for the day of judgment... with assurance and boldness to face Him, because as He is, so are we in this world.

There is no fear in love... dread does not exist, but full-grown (complete, perfect) love turns fear out of doors and expels every trace of terror! For fear brings with it the thought of punishment, and so he who is afraid has not reached the full maturity of love... He is not yet grown into love's complete perfection. We love Him, because He first loved us. If anyone says, I love God, and hates (detests, abominates) his brother in Christ, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, Whom he has not seen. And this command (charge, order, injunction) we have from Him: that he who loves God shall love his brother believer also. From 1 John 4:7-21 Amp