Love is always going to win.

This seems to be the mantra many people are adopting for their personal beliefs, regardless of what they are. Believe it or not, it’s truth. Just not always in the way we want.

The concept of love has always stood the test of time. We have seen it historically in the lives of many who have searched for someone they lost, only to be reunited with them once they quit looking. We have witnessed supernatural love- when a mom lifts a car off her children in a freak accident. There is love based on feelings- that twitter-pated junior-high butterfly- effect at the first attraction to someone we connect with. There is love based on the universal acceptance of harmony and peace. Love has been the representative of all the things we believe in, even twisted to suit our own purposes.

 Actual pure unadulterated original Love- it’s not a feeling at all.

Love is an act- it’s a verb.

Love is not to be used as an excuse for sin, wrongdoing or mediocrity. It is not something we can flex around our beliefs. Love does not allow for a gray area in our lives. When we are called to love, it is with every fiber of our being. Love is a black or white situation. There is no middle ground.

In 1 Corinthians 13- the LOVE chapter – love has been fully explained. There is expectation involved. There is obedience involved. There is sacrifice, humility and truth. There is Jesus.

1 Corinthians 13 (NIV)

1 If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Each verse of this scripture has a clear message. This is one we should be diving deep into, discussing, living and dreaming about.

Love is a verb- what can we do to live love? All the answers are here. We must find them, make changes in our lives and live love to the fullest. Let’s break it down and reveal all this chapter tells us.