Saturday, January 30, 2010

1 Corinthians 13:4-8

At camp this past summer after devo one night we had a one-on-one type convo thing with another girl in our cabin. Considering there was only 6 girls and 2 counselors in our cabin, we all got really really close. The girl I had my devo with had a total "life story" as I would call it, and I kinda listened in shock as she told me what all she was going through. It really put my life into perspective.

A couple of weeks ago I decided to see how she was doing, like really doing. Not like the "hey, how are you" "i'm good, how are you" "i'm good" kinda conversations. I facebook messaged her tellin' her I was praying for her and asking how everything was going. This was like 2 weeks ago. I never got a reply back until today. I was sitting at JV Districts timing and my phone decided to go c-r-a-z-y. Well I get my facebook messages forwarded to my phone, and so when she replied it came through in like 10 different texts that had to be pieced together. I wasn't able to do it right then because I was trying to time and do the time-board and time-sheet and going through piecing together text messages wasn't going to happen.

When I got home today I immediately went to read her message, and was once again in total shock. She was going through a lot, but at one point she said something similar to 'as much as I don't like him, God calls us to love everybody, including our enemies' and she had put part of the "love is patient, love is kind" verse in her message. I was in disbelief, she was going through so much but she was still able to see what God wanted her to do.

Next time I want to get mad at somebody, or yell, or do whatever I feel like to somebody I don't like or don't get along with, I'm going to remember what my friend from camp said, and that God calls us to love everybody. Not just our friends, but everybody.

"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." --1 Corinthians 13:4-8


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