Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything - without weakening.
1 Corinthians 13:7
The God-kind of love bears up under anything and everything that comes. It endures everything without weakening. It is determined not to give up even on the hardest case. The hard-core individual who persists in being rebellious can eventually be melted by love.
It is hard to keep showing love to someone who never seems to appreciate it or even respond to it. It is difficult to keep showing love to those individuals who take from us all we are willing to give, but who never give anything back.
We are not responsible for how others act, only for how we act. We have experience the love of God by His mercy, and now He commands us to show that same kind of love to the world. Our reward does not come from man, but from God. Even when our good deeds seem to go unnoticed, God notices and promises to reward us openly for them. Your Father who sees in secret will reward openly.
It isn't always easy to love, but God commands it. Love the unlovable in your life today.
L.O.L devotions by Joyce Meyer
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