Tha Apostle Paul does not just leave us theoretical but dives into the practical application rather than just staying with the concept. Some had elevated themselves in the church at Corinth putting others down. Paul tells them that those gifts if devoid of love does not profit anything. The child of God posseses and is rooted in Christ and Paul says we must immulate it! To the neighbor and even the enemy. Though theoretical the Apostle Paul applies the concept knowing who we are as a child of God who has sin that comes to the fore often. He does it negatively understanding who you and I are!

The attitude that I have toward someone else is the disposition. One knows that a judge who likes the person before him will likely be more lenient towards him. The same goes to our disposition. Love is longsuffering and kind. Suffering long and holding us in an inexhaustible manner. To supress and control ones anger that wants to lash out according to the flesh. This concept is well know to us all as we deal with our children and even our spouses. God suffers long with His children and seeks us and our eternal welfare in ALL things even though we sin again and again against Him. It should be emulated....and he connects it to kindness. We often murmur under our teeth to appear we are suffering long. But if we suffer with a benevolent attitude we approach the concept better. Love does not envy....to desire something that God has given to someone else that shows in our WRONG disposition. And evny left unchecked seeks the disposal of the other person....murder! But love displaces and makes no room for any of them. But we often do not cast them out and so Paul approaches the subject in negative fashion.

*Does not behave unseemly: Not to behave according to form or position that you hold. Like when a child lashes out at his parent....unseemly and unfitting. Or if a husband abuses his wife who is his own flesh. We must behave in a seemly fashion and ALL things NOT rooted in Christ are unseemly.

*Does not seek her own: selfishness and infactuated with ones self. Not me, myself, and I but what's preferable and to the glory of the neighbor and seeking HIS advantage and eternal salvation. Just as God's love ALWAYS has OUR best interest at heart.

*Not easily provoked: Sometimes we are so testy or touchy. Children of God are NOT easily set off to act without love. So many things that drive us up a wall, but they may NEVER destroy the principal of love.

*Love thinks no evil: In reconsiliation God does not impute our sin against us. Sometimes we hold an "ace in the hole" to play and pull out against the neighbor to engage in retribution and ions away from love. How evil we are sometimes!

*Rejoices in truth not in iniquity: It is not just loving and knowing the truth, but the APPLICATON OF IT in EVERYTHING we say and do. It is what we yearn for in and to ourselves and what we yearn for for our neighbor.

Love displaces all these things in our flesh. It bears all things, believes all things, and endures all things. Paul shows that there are NO LIMITS. It is UNlimitable! How much can I bear though? In regards to trying things even like alzheimers? Love says it is ENDLESS! How many times do we hear "I don't believe you?" Love believes and is hopeful and is the investment we have in one another in Christ. It is enduring and we can look in the mirror to see that the love of Christ NEVER stops.