QUALITIES OF TRUE LOVE
Apostle Paul listed
qualities of true love in 1st Corinthians 13:4-7, love is patient
and kind, It does not envy, boast, if is not proud, it is no rude, it is not
self- seeking, it is not easily angered. It keeps no records of wrongs.
Love does not delight
in iniquity but rejoice with the truth. It always protects, trusts, hopes perseveres note this
and use them to test your love affair.
1. LOVE
IS PATIENT:- To be patient means to suffer delay, pain, irritation unmet expectation,
etc. quietly and without complaining. Is your love boy or girl ready to be
patient with you? Is he or she full of
complains and anger with your mistakes. True love are patient with each other.
2. LOVE
IS KIND:- To be kind means to be ready. Willing and anxious to do good to
others. Is your so called lover or potential lover kind to you and other? If he
is only kind to you but bad to others he or she is a pretender he or she will
turn against your later.
3. IT
DOES NOT ENVY:- To be envy means to have a feeling of discontent at another
persons good for turn and success. Anybody who truly love you will not be
envious of you on matter your success, even if you are more successful than
him. If he or she hates it when you succeed, move forward or prosper, he or she
is not in love with you.
4. IT
DOES NOT BOAST: To boast means to us words in talking about something,
about oneself. When a guy or lady is boastful whenever he or she is with you.
It simply means he or she has something to hide or wants to portray himself or
herself to be the person he or she is not so that he or she may get what he or she does not
deserve from you.
5. IT
IS NOT PROUD:- To be proud means to have high opinion about oneself, to be
puff up, to be cocky conceited and over-confident. True love is not proud. He
or she is not on the pinnacle of the temple, he or she is humble and meek. If
he is proud, talk only about himself believes only in himself, he or she
believes he or she is more clever, skillful or more beautiful than anybody,
then run away from that person.
6. IT
IS NOT RUDE:- To be rude means spell or behave in a way that is not polite
and is likely to offend or annoy people.
Don’t ever thank that
a person who is and impolite to you or to other in your presence is in love
with you.
True love is not
rude. If he or she is frond of talking to you rudely, embarrassing you in the
public, shouting down at you, treating you as if you are no body, but still
tell you ‘’ I love you’’ don’t believe it.
7. IT
IS NOT SELF-SEEKING:- True love is not selfish, not self-centered but
selfless, not I’’ me’’ mine’’ myself’’ but about ‘’you’’ about’’ we’’ us’’
and’’ our’’. It does not give room for self-glorification, self-praise,
self-justification, self-conceit, self-judgment and stinginess. If all he talks
about is himself, if nothing goes except it favour’s him or her don’t marry him
or her.
8. IT
IS NOT EASILY ANGERED:- If he or she easily get angry with you don’t ever
believe he or she truly love you. If he truly loves you, kindness and meekness
will over whelm him or her actions and reaction to you.
9. IT
KEEPS NO RECORDS OF WRONG:- Does he have a diary where he keeps your
offences? She can’t just stop talking about your past mistakes? Watch your
back, you have not found a lover. True love keeps no record of offences.
10. IT
DOES NOT DELIGH IN INIQUITY:- Is your lover a child of God? Does he or she
love the Lord? Does he rejoice in purity, or his or her joy is in sexual
immorality? If his joy is about pre-marital sex, I doubt whether he loves you.
Maybe all he what is sex; he doesn’t really want to take you to altar; maybe
all he want is taking you to bed.
11. BUT
REJOICE IN TRUTH:- Does he tell the true? Is she honest? Does he rejoice in
the truth? If you have seen him or her lie to others he or she may be deceiving
you too. True love rejoice in truth.
12. IT
ALWAYS PROTECTS:- Is he or she read to protect you or is he or she the one
who reports you to anybody who care to listen when you offend him. True love
defends and protects.
13. ALWAYS
TRUST:- It is possible to trust somebody you don’t really love, but it is
almost impossible to truly love somebody you don’t truly trust if he or she
does not trust you, he or she may be full of envy
and insecurity. This will be dangerous for
your future life, marry only somebody who terst you enough to believe in you
that is the person who loves you.
14. ALWAYS
HOPES:- To hope means to be in state of feeling, that what you want, think
plans and expectation will come. Does he or she trust you enough to believe in
you that you will not disappoint? Is he or she full of fear to the extent that
he or she double dates.
Saying he is afraid
you may drop him or her. It will be totally wrong to marry somebody who does
not have hope in God and in you.
15. ALWAYS
PERSEVERS:- To persevere mean to continue to do something in spite of the difficulties
involved.
MOST
MODERN LOVERS ARE FAIR WEATHER FRIENDS.
They stay with you
when things work well; but abscond in time of challenges. True lovers are know
to stay with each other in times of difficulties, they are anchors to each
other in time of storm. Don’t ever marry anybody who only loves to see you in a
“glittering gown” but hates you whom you wear a “work overall”.
