Love bears all things

​“Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” (1 Corinthians 13:7)

To love means to embark upon a difficult and arduous task because, “love bears all things.” Loving others is not for the faint of heart. Those who don’t enjoy being committed will find love an impossibility. Those who are looking for perfection will experience dissatisfaction and never achieve love. 

“The word ‘bear’ might as correctly have been translated ‘cover.’ You that have the Revised Version will find in the margin, ‘Love covereth all things.’ ‘Covereth’ is the meaning of the word in ordinary Greek, but Paul generally uses the word in the sense of ‘bear.’ Our translators, therefore, had to choose between the usual meaning and the Pauline usage, and they selected Paul's meaning, and put it down in the first place as ‘beareth,’ giving us in the margin the other sense of ‘covereth.’ The two ideas may be blended, if we understand it to mean that love bears all things in silence, concealing injuries as much as possible even from herself…I would, brothers and sisters, that we could all imitate the pearl oyster. A hurtful particle intrudes itself into its shell, and this vexes and grieves it. It cannot eject the evil, and what does it do but cover it with a precious substance extracted out of its own life, by which it turns the intruder into a pearl. Oh, that we could do so with the provocations we receive from others, so that pearls of patience, gentleness, long-suffering, and forgiveness might be bred within us by the thing that caused us harm.” (Charles Spurgeon)

Love Covers All Things!

GiGi❤️

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