Love?

1 Corinthians 13

The Way of Love

 ¹If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. ²And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. ³ If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. ⁴Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant ⁵or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ⁶it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. ⁷Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
 ⁸Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.⁹For we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. ¹¹When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. ¹²For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
 ¹³So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
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So I'm being really challenged by this right now. Why? Because of these verses:


Luke 6.27
 ²⁷"But I say to you who hear, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you.


Matthew 5.44
⁴⁴But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,


Okay, this is not fun. Recently I've been becoming aware of the fact that I am... a topic of conversation around my school. More then once in the past week, I've come across groups of people and I hear things about myself that I probably shouldn't. 


It's been really hard. Because I did nothing wrong. The problem is to complicated to go into over this though. 


But it's not going to stop. And because of this, there is a lot of... tension. I've been withdrawing from most people at school and even in my house because I don't know who else is verbalizing this about me. I don't understand what I did that was so awfully devastating that me getting completely shredded is necessary. 


What's really upsetting is I go to a Bible College. Why are we just as bad as a Highschool?


Yes I said that. I think it's so ridiculous for the "populars" to blast the "nomads" just because of some attention is not getting pulled their way. 


I've posted before on my opinion of Populars at the end of this post (http://katydidsings.blogspot.com/2010/04/things-are-in-air.html) but now I have a new aspect on them. 


I don't understand. Can someone please explain this to me? Can someone please tell me what I did wrong? 


And I'm called to LOVE these people. These people who are judging me, ruining my reputation, making up their own personality for me... they don't even know my name. And I'm called to LOVE them... read those verses again. I am striving. Now, my biggest challenge right now is that even though I am the "hot gossip topic" I'm going to do everything I can to love the populars with 1 Corinthians 13 Love. 


Oh boy... *sigh* this is not going to be fun. 


I'll keep you posted. 


~Katydid Out.