You can learn a lot about a person by what his or her shirt says. Recently, one of these messages caught my attention as I walked through a shopping mall. A woman wore a bright red shirt that said“Love is for Losers.” I thought that maybe she thought it was clever or provocative, even funny or perhaps she had been hurt by a relationship and had pulled away from others rather than risk being hurt again. Either way, the shirt got me thinking.
Is love really for losers? The fact is, when we love, we take risks. People could very well hurt us, disappoint us, or even leave us. In short, love can lead to loss.
The Bible, though, challenges us to higher ground in loving others. In 1 Corinthians 13, Paul describes what it means to live out God’s kind of love. The person who exercises godly love doesn’t do so for personal benefit or gain but rather “bears all things, believe all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” Why? Because godly love endures beyond life’s hurts by pulling us relentlessly toward the never-diminishing care of the Father.
So, perhaps love is for losers. For it is in times of loss and disappointment that we need God the most. Even in our struggles, we know that “love never fails.”
"Now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is LOVE. "
--1Corinthians 13:13
mon has indeed justified her stand in this post. keep up the good work, girl! :)
ReplyDeletehahaha! uber formal ng comment. many thanks cariss! :)
ReplyDeleteLove is for losers. Yeah. IF AND ONLY IF (oh diba parang Math lang...=)), you believe you are a great loser without GOD. =)
ReplyDeletehaha! adik ka talaga wieson. salamat! :))
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