What Kind of Love Do you Have?

We have all been taught the three kinds of love, but I suggest that agape love is really more identifiable as a selfless love. When we give up our right to be right, God can move in our behalf.
After a struggle with a family member, I decided to re-examine the Love Chapter:







1 Corinthians 13

King James Version (KJV)

13 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

² And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries,
 and all knowledge; and though I have all faith,
 so that I could remove mountains,
 and have not charity, I am nothing.

³ And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
 and though I give my body to be burned,
and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

⁴ Charity suffereth long, and is kind;
charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself,
 is not puffed up,

⁵ Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own,
 is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

⁶ Rejoiceth not in iniquity,
 but rejoiceth in the truth;

⁷ Beareth all things, believeth all things,
 hopeth all things, endureth all things.

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Now if I rewrote this through selfishness, it would read like this:

1 Corinthians 13 of Narcissism

 

He enters every situation as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. Look at me! Look at me!

² And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, I really don't have time for other people's lives..

³ bestow all my goods to feed the poor, because he needs the tax deduction and he gives my body for relay races, because it is good public relations.

⁴ An easy answer, and regardless; he thinks he is the envy of all. Has made a name for himself.,

⁵ Doth behave itself unseemly, seeketh  his own, is easily provoked, or is getting even;

^6 . loves it when people get their just desserts; after all truth is relative; 

⁷ Shirks all things, doubts all things, suspicious of all things, and if it is too much of an imposition is suddenly too busy .

 

There is so much baggage that we bring into a marriage, family and the work place. One word can jerk us back to the past. When we are selfless, there is no trigger.

There was an old book called Looking Out for Number 1. That would have been great advice if he realized that Number 1 is God, the Father.