love incorruptible.
this verse hit me today. i don't think i know what love incorruptible is. and i confess that i sometimes wonder if i know how to love at all.
we live in a world where love is not pure. there is selfish gain to most aspects of love. and if there is not gain then it is commanded. or if its freely given it is still imperfect. so love incorruptible. what is that?
i love. i love deeply sometimes. i love when it hurts. but i feel like its a shadow of what real love is like. and i think this is at the root of it. that only God can love pure, without false motive, fully, past hurt and pain, unconditionally. but even more than that- Gods love cannot ever even be corrupted.
even if we, the object of God's love are weak, needy, corrupt, evil, without any real concept of true, lasting, perfect love. we cannot corrupt God's love for us. how amazingly wonderful is that?
it makes me want to love. to truly love because i am loved incorruptibly. and it makes me want to keep loving even when i don't think i do a very good job. when it seems like other people love me better. or that others know and love others better than my weak efforts. and even when others seem to love God so much better than ever i can or will be able to.
today i am thankful for God's love. His unending, unbelievable, unconditional love for me who does such a bad job at loving and who's love for Him is corrupted by this world and by my sin.
i had friends over last saturday- frankie loved dessert :)
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