Love is Not a Feeling | Josh Petersen

LOVE IS NOT A FEELING
JOSH PETERSEN | OCTOBER 27, 2024
LOVING PEOPLE IS HARD.
WE DON’T ALWAYS FEEL LOVING.
WITH LOVE THERE ARE NO BREAKS.
Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
1 Corinthians 13, verse 7 (NLT)
As [Jesus] walked along, he saw Levi son of Alphaeus sitting at his tax collector’s booth. “Follow me and be my disciple,” Jesus said to him. So Levi got up and followed him. Later, Levi invited Jesus and his disciples to his home as dinner guests, along with many tax collectors and other disreputable sinners. (There were many people of this kind among Jesus’ followers.) But when the teachers of religious law who were Pharisees saw him eating with tax collectors and other sinners, they asked his disciples, “Why does he eat with such scum?” When Jesus heard this, he told them, “Healthy people don’t need a doctor-sick people do. I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners.”
Mark 2, verses 14-17 (NLT)
[Jesus] is patient and kind. [He] is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. [Jesus] does not demand its own way. [Jesus] is not irritable, and [he] keeps no record of being wronged. [Jesus] does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. [Jesus] never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
1 Corinthians 13, verses 4-7 (NLT)
YOU, ME, JESUS.