The One With I Love You More

@kennysgoh has done it again. Seriously, if anyone here was at @OxygenJPCC you would know what I was saying.

During the sermon my brain was going faster than the speed of light. As a result, it has time travelled back to when I was saved. When I first know Him who loved me.

We were discussing 1 Corinthians 13 tonight. Yes, is that sappy-yet-always-make-your-heart-warm sort of passage. I have loved that passage for so many years, as well as feeling intimidated with that. My Sunday school told me that 1 Corinthians 13 is a benchmark of how to love.

I successfully failed.

Are you freakin serious?

Love is kind - I threw a massive pout on a waiter who was rude to me yesterday
Love is patience - hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Love keeps no record of wrong - only if I enter Blackbriar program and become the next Jason Bourne.
Love always protects, always trust, always hope - yes, if you never disappoint or betray me... Which include no one....

See? Utterly, miserably, superbly defeated.

But somehow I always found that passage enchanting. And as I started to think that I was a masochist  because I keep on putting unrealistic expectation on myself, I found out why this passage capture my heart.

Thanks to @kennysgoh and @maxlucado


Love is not a character. Love is a person. Love is Jesus.

Jesus is kind.
Jesus is patience.
Jesus keeps no record of wrongs (HALLELUJAH!!!)

See? Now that passage is sooooooooo much better. And that explains why my heart is so drawn to that passage. It describes Jesus. It describe how He loves us. It describe Himself. This passage describe His graceful, generous, unreserved love that He lavished happily to us.

When you read more of 1 Corinthians 13, Paul said that "if I do not have love, I am nothing". In my old framework that line means :: if you can't love people like how it's described in the passage, see ya. Pack your knife and go. You're fired. Auf wiedersehen. You are not qualified for the next round. Buh-bye. New framework? If I don't have Jesus, I am nothing. I cannot agree more.


My favourite reply to the people in my world when they say they love me is "I love you more"

I can never say that to Jesus, and for that I am grateful.