Love

Saw this from eugenia's blog:

"if you cannot love a God who loves you with undivided devotion and complete faithfulness, it will be a challenge to love Man who is unfaithful and imperfect."

-snippet from last night’s workshop at VCF FOC

Which reminded me a lot of what Adel said to me before after some fiasco a year back: If someone is able to love God wholeheartedly, one that is invisible and spiritual, how much love would he bestow on his girlfriend/wife, one that is tangible and physically available on Earth.

Then and there I realize that to me, it actually doesn't matter how awesome a guy seem to be. If he don't love God, I will want to leave him.

1 Corinthians 13: 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

Though Paul was writing this in context of agape love for the Corinth church, and this passage is labelled cliche in How I Met Your Mother for Lily and Marshall's wedding -.-,  the very essence of this passage is what love is truly is about for everyone uh. tough call.

The more I study the bible, the more I find Christianity hard. However the more I find Christianity hard, the more meaning and purposes there seem to be for my life and the more goodness I see in my faith and belief. Beyond the crippled surface of hypocritical judgement and extreme self-righteousness in some self-proclaimed Christians that doesn't act that way, lies a pure gold core waiting to shine brightly. Like the treasures in a broken alabaster jar.

And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
Without love, everything that we live for as Christians don't matter. If we can't even show love, it doesn't matter if we can worship loudly, can speak in tongues, can have every talent and gifts to serve Him, can prophesize, can have visions, can live a 'righteous' life. All these don't matter without that.