#lovelikeJesus: Hold This Ground

I’ve been guilty of wanting to be right, so I stood my ground but lost in love. How many friendships were lost because we held the wrong ground? How many marriages were lost because we held the wrong ground? How many churches were destroyed because we held the wrong ground? Oh, how easily we give up on each other.

We must fight, defend, and hold the ground of love. 1 Corinthians 13:7 says love endures all things. People smarter than me, say this Greek word harkens to a military command to hold an area of value at all cost. Countless soldiers have given their lives for ground like this. Oh, that we valued the ground of love and relationship this same way.

There is a place for knowledge. There is a place for speaking truth. There is a place for wisdom and seeing but the writer Paul reminds us in 1 Corinthians 13 that without love these things are nothing. Maturity is not a measure of how much we know but how well we love.

What ground will you hold? I choose love. I choose you!