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Wisdom-Trek / Creating a Legacy
Welcome to Day 801 of our Wisdom-Trek, and thank you for joining me.
I am Guthrie Chamberlain, Your Guide to Wisdom
The God Kind of Love-Wisdom Wednesday


Thank you for joining us for our five days per week wisdom and legacy building podcast. Today is Day 801 of our Trek, and it is Wisdom Wednesday.  We continue this Wednesday to explore our trek of interpreting life through a Biblical Worldview.  As a Christ follower, it is important to view all situations and events in life through the lens of the Bible. That is a view of the world that is aligned with what the Bible teaches us. We are exploring current issues that impact our world and society and comparing them through the lens of the Bible, instead of the lens of our society, culture, modern media, or social media. I do not desire to tell you what to think, but teach you how to think, so that you may be able to filter current issues and events through your Biblical Worldview.  I may explore opposing views and challenge you to think.  You may not always agree with my view, and that is ok, and I am open to any comments that you may have on the subjects that we explore.

We are broadcasting from our studio at ‘The Big House’ in Marietta, OH.  I am going to diverge this week from the topic of loving yourself which we started last week, and we will finish that topic next Wisdom Wednesday.  Since this episode is being released on Valentine’s Day I decided to explore a Biblical Worldview of what true love really is according to God’s Word.

So our topic today is:
The God Kind of Love
The first part of today’s trek is a paraphrase of what is considered the Love chapter which is 1 Corinthians 13.  This was written by David Sanford and was Copyright 2003 and is used by permission:

If I talk a lot about God and the Bible and the Church, but I fail to ask about your needs and then help you, I'm simply making a lot of empty religious noise.

If I graduate from theological seminary and know all the answers to questions you'll never even think of asking, and if I have all the degrees to prove it and if I say I believe in God with all my heart, and soul and strength, and claim to have incredible answers to my prayers to show it, but I fail to take the time to find out where you are and what makes you laugh and why you cry, I'm nothing.

If I sell an extra car and some of my books to raise money for some poor starving kids somewhere, and if I give my life for God's service and burn out after pouring everything I have into the work, but do it all without ever once thinking about the people, the real hurting people-the moms and dads and sons and daughters and orphans and widows and the lonely and hurting-if I pour my life into the Kingdom but forget to make it relevant to those here on earth, my energy is wasted, and so is my life.Here is what love is like--genuine love. God's kind of love. It's patient. It can wait. It helps others, even if they never find out who did it. Love doesn't look for greener pastures or dream of how things could be better if I just got rid of all my current commitments. Love doesn't boast. It doesn't try to build itself up to be something it isn't. Love doesn't act in a loose, immoral way. It doesn't seek to take, but it willingly gives. Love doesn't lose its cool. It doesn't turn on and off. Love doesn't think about how bad the other person is, and certainly doesn't think of how it could get back at someone. Love is grieved deeply (as God is) over the evil in this world, but it rejoices over truth.

Love comes and sits with you when you're feeling down and finds out what is wrong. It empathizes with you and believes in you. Love knows you'll come through just as God planned, and love sticks right beside you all the way. Love doesn't give up, or quit, or diminish or go home.