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In love

Love is patient, love is kind,I'm in love with you.

It does not envy, it does not boast, I'm in love with you.

Love is not proud, It is not rude, I'm in love with you.

Love is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, I'm in love with you.

Love keeps no record of wrongs and does not delight in evil,I'm in love with you.

Love rejoices with the truth, it always protects, I'm in love with you.

Love always trusts, always hopes, I'm in love with you.

Love always perseveres,I'm in love with you.

Love never fails,I'm in love with you.


I have heard several people in the last year refer to " the love passage in the scripture as Cliche. I am pretty sure that my mouth dropped open every time I heard it and my heart was sad. We do not know so much about love, and what we do know is but a small amount. How could we, we are but selfish beings. True love means that I lay down my life, my selfish desires, for others. Laying down my life for others is so impossible for me. That is why I need Jesus Christ.

Cliche:
1 : a trite phrase or expression; also : the idea expressed by it
2 : a hackneyed theme, characterization, or situation
3 : something (as a menu item) that has become overly familiar or commonplace

Love, is not cliche and the idea of love is not cliche. Though the ideas that this world has believed about love sometimes are.


1 Corinthians 13:1-13 (NIV)

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

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