"Bears all things." I Cor. 13:7
Our writer is not an individual who is given to either naive idealism or romantic sentiment with regard to love. He knows that neither of the above are real, he knows that they cannot bear up under various difficulties and trials of life. He presents love as supportive, vulnerable, compliant, ornery, and filled with tremendous meaning and power.
For the writer of these words "bears all things" therein lies the probing mysteries of life and love.
A widow came up to me after church service on one bright Sunday morning. She pulled me aside and told me that she had a highly intimate dream about her late husband the night before. She said that in the dream that he kissed her and she could still feel his kiss upon her lips. Then she said that she wanted to be with him and a short time later she was.
Their lives together were an example of a love that 'bears all things.'
What do these words really mean? In the Greek text it is written as 'panta stegei' - Panta is a very profound word and it means - all things individually and in their totality. The word 'bear' means to roof over with silence.
Here is a real love and a type of love that is rare in the world today. Here is a love that protects the object of its love. There is no revealing of the short comings or limitations of one's love to the world and its dismissive posturing for the fake and fraudulent over the warm and profoundly real.
Think about God's love for us as demonstrated in the Iesous. God knows who we are completely, and yet he does not reveal to the world all that he knows about us. He bears all things in his love for us.
If you have need of a love that will 'bear all things' with you - look to the Iesous.
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