Love Speaks - Hold Up Under Pressure

From the beginning, it seemed it would be an easy win for the Dallas Mavericks.  They held a double-digit lead and were consistently making good shots.  Everyone was playing their “A” game.  Something happened in the fourth quarter that cannot be explained.  Their opponent began to gain momentum, and the lead was dwindled down to two points.  In the middle of the fourth quarter the opponent was ahead and the Mavericks began to lose the game. The Mavericks controlled the ball with three seconds on the clock.  They had time for one last chance to win the game.  The score was 98 to 95.  The Mavericks needed to make a three-point basket in order to take the game into overtime.  It seemed impossible but the players believed they could make it happen.  The ball was tossed in; the player caught it and turned and shot the ball at the basket.  The buzzard sounded after the ball was in the air.  The three-point basket was good.  The player made the basket under so much pressure.  Now the game goes into overtime.

Love that bears all things is like the Maverick players in the scenario.  To bear something is to hold up under pressure.  Even when the pressure seems to be unbearable love does as the player did, it makes the basket. 

Love from God expects a favorable outcome.  It embraces the inevitable with a strong desire to display the power of God in all situations. 

Everyday love is tested.  Some tests come early in the day, and other tests come at the end of the day just when it is time to rest.  Love holds up under pressure.

Pressure is when a child is sick, and you have tried all you could to make them feel better.  You are tired 

the child is cranky, and nothing is alleviating the pain.  Love speaks through the pressure in that it continues to hold up until the pain subsides without blowing its top.

Pressure is being on a thankless, pointless, demeaning job.  The job market is soft, and you remember how hard it was to get this job.  Love speaks when you speak in the morning to people who like you don’t want to be there.  Love speaks in the afternoon in the way you speak about your leaders at your break.  Love speaks in the evening when you return home to your family and remember why you took the job in the first place.

Love Speaks in the pressure of life of the plan of God to make all things work for His children.

13 Day Love Challenge

Day 10

Call someone you haven’t spoken to in a long time due to an argument or disagreement.