I've been reading 1 Corinthians 13, the famous passage about love ("Love is patient, love is kind, etc."). It's a great passage, but how does one practice this without being a pushover or a doormat? Any ideas about this? Thanks.
2006-07-23 07:49:12 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You can love people without giving into their whims. I don't know specifically what you mean, but it is a daily challenge.....you can love all people on one level, and still do wat you think is best or right....be patient, be kind, etc....
2006-07-23 07:54:35 · answer #1 · answered by gracefully_saved 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
First the discussion begins in 1 Cor. 12 and ends in 1 Cor 14. Paul describes aspects of love. It applies to everyone.
If you feel like a door mat, I suggest you read 1 Cor 10:23-24 with emphasis on 24. As long as you kept within those bounds, you should have no trouble moving away from those doormat feelings.
2006-07-23 07:58:54 · answer #2 · answered by J. 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Love is many things. Love is also correction.
If your heart is in the right place, you will always have a correct balance in all things.
I've seen Christians stepped on for being "patient and long-suffering" but the Bible also says to forgive them if they repent.
It's ridiculous to keep forgiving a person that is not sincerely sorry for his/her actions.
Jesus even got angry once at the money-changers in
the temple. He threw over all the tables with their coins
and said, "you have made the house of God a den of thieves" or something to that effect.
There is a balance. Be loving. Be good. But don't be a
limp noodle. If someone is deliberately being evil by
abusing your Christian stance. Rebuke them, and walk away. God will take care of the rest.
2006-07-23 09:15:10 · answer #3 · answered by Joja 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is perplexing to forgive whilst the hurts are very deep and takes sometimes forgiving somewhat at a time till we are waiting to forgive thoroughly. Forgiveness is composed of reconciliation with people who're forgiving and those that could desire to be forgiven. working example look at Rwanda. After the civil war that they had, there have been too many people in the jails for them to definitely get to anybody case. So in a plan of Reconciliation, the folk in penal complex had to bypass lower back to the villages the place that they had killed people and ask them for forgiveness and whilst they won forgiveness they had to artwork on restoring the village and making it a place of restoration and forgiveness. Forgiveness oftentimes ability doing issues as though the offense by no ability occurred till this is going to become extra area of you than the offense ever exchange into, or maybe although no longer forgotten, the memory of the offense fades till this is now no longer area of discomfort and harm.
2016-10-08 05:57:43 · answer #4 · answered by bugenhagen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to be wise as a serpent,as Jesus said and harmless as a dove.We are to know the truth but not beat people over the head if they are wrong.Didn't God love you right where you were at.Study what Jesus said and the understanding will come to.
Stand for what is right with love as the backbone and you will see yourself grow in Love like you should.
2006-07-23 09:15:14 · answer #5 · answered by jackiedj8952 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In my case, I don't want to be a pushover or a doormat when overcoming evil with good. I want to be assertive, but still be polite.
2006-07-23 07:52:58 · answer #6 · answered by blessedman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pretty tough row to hoe, ain't it?
Love your neighbor as yourself.
Forgive them 70 times 7.
Sometimes you're taken advantage of.
If it persists, at some point, you have to stop the abuse.
It's a judgment call.
2006-07-23 07:57:04 · answer #7 · answered by NickofTyme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just treat people as you wish to be treated. And remember this meekness is not weakness; it is power under control.
2006-07-23 07:53:29 · answer #8 · answered by Lady Di-USA 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋