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Dripping Springs Weekly Bulletins
Love Is . . . .
- What makes mornings bright, evenings peaceful, and the future full of hope.
- Looking for ways to brighten the days and nights of others, even if it means giving up the things you want most of all.
- Putting others’ interests ahead of your own, and truly seeking the best interests of your enemy as well as your friend.
- Making the extra effort to find out what others need, then doing whatever it takes to provide that need.
- Being there when a brother or sister in Christ needs you in a time of stress or grief.
- Saying “thank you,” “please” and “I’m sorry” when the time is right.
- Telling your neighbor, your friend or your classmate what Jesus means to you and what He can mean to them.
- Searching all through the Bible to find out what God says about love and how you can show it.
- Not always “soft and cuddly” but is often tough, thoughtfully providing discipline and firm guidance.
- Caring for a parent or a child who cannot take care of himself or herself.
- Searching for God’s revealed truth, believing it yourself, and then making it known to everyone you know.
- Kindly showing the ways of God to those who don’t even know there is a God.
- Leaving the best piece of the fried chicken for your husband, your wife or your children – or your parents.
- Putting God first in your life and being a good example for your family, friends and neighbors – and even your enemy.
- Always looking for ways to help the ones who have been a help to you.
- Remembering important times from the past that bring joy to others.
- Being respectful of those who have taught you how to know and love God and His family.
- Forgiving and forgetting harsh words that were spoken in pressure-filled times, even if “I’m sorry” is slow to come.
- Doing the “right thing” even when some are trying to get you to do the “wrong thing.”
- Expressing words of comfort and love even when such words are not expected.
- Putting others first, giving honor to whom honor is due, and keeping your own accomplishments to yourself.
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“Love suffers long, and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails.”
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Dying to Self
When you are forgotten, or neglected, or purposely set at naught, and you don't sting or hurt with the insult or the oversight, but your heart is happy, being counted worthy to suffer for Christ,
THAT IS DYING TO SELF.
When your good is evil spoken of, when your wishes are crossed, your advice disregarded, your opinions ridiculed, and you refuse to let anger rise in your heart, or even defend yourself, but take it all in patient, loving silence,
THAT IS DYING TO SELF.
When you lovingly and patiently bear any disorder, any irregularity, any unpunctuality, or any annoyance, when you stand face-to-face with waste, folly, extravagance, spiritual insensibility -- and endure it as Jesus endured.
THAT IS DYING TO SELF.
When you never care to refer to yourself in conversation, or to record your own goods, or itch after commendations, when you can truly love to be unknown,
THAT IS DYING TO SELF.
When you can see your brother prosper and have his needs met and can honestly rejoice with him in spirit and feel no envy, nor question God, while your own needs are far greater and in desperate circumstances,
THAT IS DYING TO SELF.
When you can receive correction and reproof from one of less stature than yourself and can humbly submit inwardly as well as outwardly, finding no rebellion or resentment rising up within your heart,
THAT IS DYING TO SELF.
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