You are going through life and you meet someone who you just cant stand to be with out. You both have so much in common and you think the other person is just so good looking. You share some laughs and some good times but then out of no where things start going down hill. Your b/f or g/f starts acting strange, not paying that much attention to you, verbally and fiscally abusing you. You try so hard to make sure you both don't get into any fights, you go out of your way to make them happy because you don't want to loose them.
BUT STOP!!!!!
Take a second and step back. Is that fair or is that even right? A relationship is about give and take, doing things for and with each other, using loving words. This explains what love truly is:
| << 1 Corinthians 13 >> New International Version 1984 |
1If I speak in the tonguesa of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal.
2If
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 have not
love, I am nothing.
3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames,b but have not love, I gain nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth.
7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8Love
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.
9For we know in part and we prophesy in part,
10but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears.
11When
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 childish ways behind
me.
12Now
we see but a poor 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.
13And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.
If you are not receiving these then how could the person saying they love you really love you? Also to those don't forget to also give these, like it says love is not self-seeking!
So ask your self...When is enough, enough? When will you walk away from the pain and hurt? Are you really staying with this person because you love them or is it something else? Their good looks? You think you can change them? There is only one person that can ever change anyone and that is God.
Please take it from me...walk away from anyone that is not treating you with true love. The longer you stay with someone that is hurting you the more pain you are only causing yourself. It ages you. So be strong, say your good by's and take time to find you again. Find the things you like, the things you enjoy doing and pray for your future soul mate. God will bring you just who you need!
