Love, Assumes the Best

Love. . .  bear all things believes all things, hopes all things, endure all thing.
1 CORINTHIANS 13:7

Love has no limits. Love never says, "You've gone too far I can't love you now." All things" means everything is included. Christlike love leaves no doubts in the mind of another that you will continue to love steadfastly. Do those close to you know that they can fail and do foolish things, yet you will not fatter in your love for them, holding nothing against them?
    Love assumes the best about others. If someone inadvertently offends you, choose to believe the offense was unintentionally. If a positive light can be shed on a difficult encounter, you grasp it. If someone continually provokes you, you "endure all things." You never lose hope in the ones you love. You practice the same unconditional love toward others that Christ gives to you.
    Paul said that he was nothing if he had the faith to move mountains, the tongue of an Angel, and the gift of prophecy to understand all mysteries, yet did not have God's love. It is unacceptable to say, "Well, I just can't love people that way!" When God loves people through you, this is the only kind of love He has! Read 1 Corinthians 13 with gratitude that God has already expressed this complete and selfless love to you. Pray and ask Him to express it through you now, to others.