{"id":2309,"date":"2013-02-14T01:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T06:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/?p=2309"},"modified":"2013-02-13T22:39:23","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T03:39:23","slug":"pearls-of-wisdom-02-14-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kspministries.org\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/14\/pearls-of-wisdom-02-14-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearls of Wisdom 02-14-2013"},"content":{"rendered":"

HAPPY VALENTINE\u2019S DAY!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Today is a day which is all about love between two people.\u00a0 Cards are exchanged.\u00a0 Candy and flowers are bought by the armloads.\u00a0 Restaurants are full of couples celebrating the day of love as they spend time together.\u00a0 For so many people, it is simply another day where they pretend that everything is OK in their lives.\u00a0 It is a dream unattainable in their estimation.\u00a0 People get hurt.\u00a0 They are disappointed with one another.\u00a0 Bitter words are exchanged many times.\u00a0 Human love eventually wears thin.\u00a0 That is understandable.\u00a0 As the old expression goes for churches, so it also goes for marriage.\u00a0 When you have more than one person in a relationship, you have the potential for problems.<\/p>\n

Love is a beautiful thing when God is intertwined in it with two people.\u00a0 There are so many facets to His love that life is never boring, always exciting as we discover new beauty in our loved one.\u00a0 The Lord causes us to see the strengths and goodness of our loved ones.\u00a0 He causes us to find no fault in the other one.\u00a0 The problem is that human love fails after a short period of time.\u00a0 In any relationship, there comes a point in time when people look at one another and there is not the spark there used to be.\u00a0 What happened to it?\u00a0 There is a better way to have a relationship of love.\u00a0 It is when God is the third person in the relationship.\u00a0 His love never ends, never fails, never wears out.\u00a0 His love is not temporary.\u00a0 His love is the same forever, never bending to circumstances or time.\u00a0 When we are hooked to Him, we are hooked to the greatest love in the universe. \u00a0His love makes our love for one another the greatest love in the universe because we choose to look at each other through His eyes.<\/p>\n

On the dresser in my husband\u2019s and my bedroom is a plaque to remind us that love is forever and includes God in the equation always.\u00a0\u00a0 Marriage:\u00a0 A successful triangle between a man, a woman and God.<\/p>\n

I know 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 is a passage of scripture which is used over and over where love is concerned, but nothing can top it.\u00a0 I am going to read it from the Amplified Bible and from the New Living Translation.\u00a0 If we will put these words into actions in our relationships and not just talk about it, we will live days of heaven on earth.<\/p>\n

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Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily.\u00a0 It is not conceited (arrogant and inflated with pride); it is not rude (unmannerly) and does not act unbecomingly.\u00a0 Love (God\u2019s love in us) does not insist on its own rights or its own way, for it is not self-seeking,; it is not touchy or fretful or resentful; it takes no account of the evil done to it [it pays no attention to a suffered wrong].\u00a0 It does not rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but rejoices when right and truth prevail.\u00a0 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].\u00a0 Love never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end].<\/p>\n

Love is patient and kind.\u00a0 Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude.\u00a0 Love does not demand its own way.\u00a0 Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged.\u00a0 It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.\u00a0 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.\u00a0 Love will last forever\u2026.<\/p>\n

Know this of a certainty:\u00a0 GOD\u2019S LOVE IN US NEVER FAILS!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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