KEY SCRIPTURE: 1 Corinthians 13:7″ (Love) beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, and endureth all things.”

Love bears all things. Love has longsuffering. Love does not just tolerate. To tolerate is to be grievous about a condition, yet you live with it feeling victimized. When love is in operation, the condition may be grievous, but love does not feel offended. Love seeks the transformation of the one causing the discomfort.

People who are normally unbearable are mostly self-centered. To be self-centered is to be immature. This is a big weakness in such people. A man of love is  concerned about such defect in the life of one like that. Love bears with  him or her hoping for a change. It is  not the discomfort the one causes that is a concern but the negative impact of his actions to himself that  love seeks the change.

This act of bearing with all things is what the Bible calls longsuffering. It is not talking about compromising with sin. It is an issue of having to bear with certain wrong actions of people.

To walk in this virtue of love, you’ve got to believe that you have the ability to bear with all the wrongs of people. Say to yourself that I have the ability to bear with every weakness of others.

Many people complicate matters for themselves by claiming that they are humans and cannot bear with the faults and failures of others. Please remember that according to James 3:2 ” For in many things we offend all. If any man offends not in word, the same is a perfect man, and he is able to bridle the whole body.” The Bible says if a man does not offend in word, he is a perfect man, able to bridle or control his body. What does it mean to offend in word?  This is when a man speaks, not in line with the word of God. Please, it is God who is at work in you, both to will, and to do of His good pleasure Phil 2:13 There is a wrong concept that some people have which gives them away to the enemy.

They claim one must be frank and talk about his inadequacies. I may ask what does it mean to live by faith? It means to accept or believe what God’s word says about you and to likewise say it too. (2nd Corinth 4:13, Romans 10:9-10)

You give yourself over to the enemy when you say things like I have a bad temper and cannot stand certain actions. If you talk like this, you have offensive words according to James 3:2, the devil would certainly whip you, making you do all the wrong things.

Say what the Bible says about you. Always admit that you are like your Heavenly Father, and the actions of your Father are what you would manifest.

     CONFESSIONS

I am a child of God and bear the nature of my father. He is merciful and has longsuffering. I also have mercy and bears with all failures of others seeking their restoration and perfection.

THOUGHT: LOVE IS ALWAYS ON A MISSION, A MISSION TO BLESS, AND NOT TO COMPLAIN.

FURTHER STUDIES:

Ephesians 4:2 ” With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love”;

Colossians 1:11 “Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness;”