Love=God. God is
love. When God told Moses “I am who am” love was included in
that. God doesn't want any to come to harm, but He wants us all to
live in peace. He has a great heart and wants all reconciled to Him.
(Proverbs 10:12) Love is productive, and not in terms of personal
gain but in terms of nourishing and caring for others. Love doesn't
get frustrated but nourishes. (Proverbs 15:17), And God will not
bear grudges but understands that both life and love are processes
that we as humans have to make our way through, rather than to be
beat down for not understanding how to do certain of the processes
or for not even being able to do those processes, (Proverbs 17:9)
Love is patient. And yet love exposes sin. This is so much of where
Proverbs 27:5 is going, and puts me in mind of Paul's rebuke of
Peter when Peter wouldn't sit with the Gentiles because of the
Jewish Christians. Love exposed that Peter should have been sitting
with all and not just the Jews. And Paul did so in a manner that may
not have please our Equal Opportunity committes today but
demonstrated to the leader of the church in Jerusalem at that time
that not even he is without sin.
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