​Love Bears ALL Things...looking hopefully toward the future (Part 3 of 3).

The below challenge is from Heather Drabinsky. I did include some passages at the very end for each of us to mull over as well.
Enjoy!
Nate

MARRIAGE MEDITATION: LOVE BEARS ALL THINGS

• BY HEATHER DRABINSKY
• JUNE 2, 2020

 
Love bears all things — it helps carry burdens even through hardship, believes the best even after shortcomings and rejoices in truth even following failure.
GETTING STARTED

• Watch today’s Marriage Meditation video.
• Read today’s Marriage Meditation devotion.
• Share today’s question with your spouse.

TODAY’S DEVOTION
Scripture Reading:
1 Corinthians 13:6-7 — “[Love] does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.
Meditation:
To bear something means to help carry, suffer with or endure. First Corinthians 13:7 states, “Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
To love your spouse is to help carry their burdens through life and endure with them through their shortcomings. When they’re struggling, whether emotionally, mentally or physically, love means staying beside them through the pain and looking hopefully toward the future.
Assuming the worst in your spouse can be easy sometimes. If they fail to complete a project they said they’d do or forgot about an important event, disappointment can surface. Rude presumptions that aren’t true can arise. But you can demonstrate that love bears all things by believing the best of your spouse. Cheer them on. When they fall short, pray for them and then try to continue encouraging them.
Scripture’s definition of love in 1 Corinthians 13:6 says that love “does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.” If your spouse messes up or upsets you, what’s the first way you’d normally respond? Most likely, the last thing you’d feel like doing is to remind yourself of the truth of their intrinsic value. But in moments of frustration, love would mean remembering that they’re not a failure or a disappointment, but a child of God.
Love bears all things — it helps carry burdens even through hardship, believes the best even after shortcomings and rejoices in truth even following failure.
Prayer: Heavenly Father, teach me how to love my spouse the way You do. Help me to endure through the valleys of marriage and bear all things for the sake of Your love to shine through.
TODAY’S QUESTION
How can I help carry the burdens of life with you and believe the best in you?
https://www.focusonthefamily.com/marriage/marriage-meditation-love-bears-all-things/
 
In John MacArthur’s devotional book Drawing Near (on the page for August 24th…timely, right?) he points out as a reminder to each of us, in regard to this topic, that “How you react indicates the quality of your love.”

Below are a few passages to really grab ahold of and learn from…
Matthew 1:19 (NIV) Because Joseph her husband was faithful to the law, and yet did not want to expose her to public disgrace, he had in mind to divorce her quietly.
Matthew 18:15 (NLT) “If another believer sins against you, go privately and point out the offense. If the other person listens and confesses it, you have won that person back.
Proverbs 19:11 – This verse speaks of bearing trouble calmly, and choosing to generously display mercy and pity…
New International Version
A person’s wisdom yields patience; it is to one’s glory to overlook an offense.
New Living Translation
Sensible people control their temper; they earn respect by overlooking wrongs.
English Standard Version
Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense.
New King James Version
The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger, And his glory is to overlook a transgression.
New American Standard Bible
A person’s discretion makes him slow to anger, And it is his glory to overlook an offense.
1 Peter 4:8 (NLT) Most important of all, continue to show deep love for each other, for love covers a multitude of sins.