The thing I found most interesting in this week's reading is the verses in the Bible written in 1 Corinthians.
I enjoyed the way love is portrayed in the Bible in 1 Corinthians 13. This verse tells me to be true to myself. It shows how important love is and what it means to us. Love means much more than what one assumes it means. I like 1Cor. 13:3 where is says, "If I give away everything that I have and hand over my own body to feel good about what I've done but I don't have love, I receive no benefit whatsoever." To me, this means don't throw myself at someone, don't go into a relationship because I pity someone. Instead, go with how I feel. Love has to be true, I can't just forge it. Then it goes on to the "love is patient, love is kind..." segment. I personally think about love every single day. It is my goal in life to be with someone I love for the rest of my life. It's such a powerful thing, and really hard to understand. I want to trust love and believe that it will find a way to find me, instead of me going out and finding love. Relationships are such a complicated thing, girls talk about it every day. It's relieving to know that Jesus went through trying to understand love as well. Love never fails.
Another pretty interesting thing was in 1 Cor. 15:38 "God gives it the sort of shape that he chooses, and he gives each of the seeds its own shape. All flesh isn't alike". Lately, I feel like there has been an overwhelming amount of discussion over diversity, minorities, differences in people as groups. Am I the only one? I am very exhausted of hearing the words diverse, minority and whatnot. As the Bible states, all flesh isn't alike. No two people are the same. Why are people discussing the differences in the color of the persons skin when each person is different. I feel like our civilization has come so comfortable with clustering people together, individuality is overlooked. I think it is time to stop talking about ethnicities, racism, and realize that each person in the world comes from a different culture. Even among the majority, two people are different. No two flesh are alike.
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