“Bear all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
God does not force us to love anyone. He commands us to love, and from that point, we can choose to obey, or disobey. By choosing to love someone you are making a choice to bear the load. We choose to take on the task of loving that person. From that point, the next step we are asked to believe in the person at all times no matter the circumstance. If they have lied, slandered, and hurt you over and over again we are still asked to believe they won't do it again. You don't have to believe the lies they may feed you, or enable them, but we are asked to believe that the person could do better. First we choose to love, from there we must believe in what we love, and from that point we are asked to hope. Hope is having faith in someone and turning it into an action. Praying for them, encouraging them, and more personally, conforming your thoughts into hoping the best for them no matter the sin. Christ does this process for us everyday. He chose to love us, he believes in us through every sin we make, He then hopes that we'll do better next time, the next time, and the next time. He you picks up the pack(love) and strap it to your back. You must believe the backpack will be sufficient enough to fulfill it's purpose, if you don't believe the pack will pull through how will you it ever be able to prove you wrong? Whether your backpack is full of weights, or full of feathers, we have to carry the pack hoping that it will travel with you wherever you go. When we get dreary and want to set it down even for a moment, by love standards, that is unacceptable. After we pick up the pack, believe in its purpose, hope it will live out its purpose, we are then asked to do it every moment of everyday. If it rips, or breaks we must still carry it, hoping it will accomplish the journey. He is always carrying the pack and willing to do whatever it takes to help it complete its purpose. We kick, we scream, we walk away, we slander, and we hate. Yet still He walks for us. Luckily, God does not expect us to be perfect. But to clearly understand how Christ does this for us everyday, gives us that much more motivation to mimic. We will hate the pack, we will turn around and yell at it, and we will drop it over and over again. But because Christ never did, Heaven is still in store.
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