Sobering When Put This Way

What if we looked at 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 from the reverse angle? I think it helps us put so much of our pettiness and self-interest in stark perspective and shows love as that much more beautiful.

Impatience and unkindness is hatred.

Hate is envious and ego-centric.

Hate is arrogant and rude.

Hatred is insisting on one’s own way;

hatred is irritable or resentful;

it celebrates sin, and it mocks what is true.

Hate is whiny and thin-skinned,

thoroughly skeptical,

always pessimistic,

a born quitter.

But hatred ends . . .