Do you recognize the phrase in the title?
Did your mind immediate fix onto a Scripture passage, or did you start scanning your memory?
Do you accept it as a nice phrase, but wonder where it came from?
Did you think of a wedding?
Love hopes all things. Let me put the entire passage from I Corinthians 13:4-7 here for you to ponder:
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
The whole thing deserves attention, but for today let me resonate with a recent article I read and focus on the question: Does love really hope all things?
Some questions:
- What assumptions will you have to toss aside?
- Who in your life will you actually have to believe can change for the better?
- How much less complaining will you have to do?
- What groups or types of people will you discuss less, especially in a less than positive fashion?
This Friday, let the simple challenge work in your heart: hope all things.
In Christ,
Pastor Kevin