Spreading Love

I Corinthians 13:8-9 Teacher's Edition

Knowing that God promises to spread His love throughout the hearts of His servants, students will come to my class expecting to find love. They will know that no matter how trying and stressful the day, or the week, or the semester, or the year, that God's love has no limit to its endurance. It can outlast anything. Thus, they will find love here. When everything else in their life appears to be self-destructing, falling apart, they will find love here. When others are looking at them suspiciously, looking to see the worst, they will find no end to the trust I have in them as God's beloved child, no fading to the unwavering hope I have for them in God's everlasting arms, no expectations of anything but the best from them, no lessening in the extravagant love God desires to immerse them in through His Spirit's "spreading" work in my heart. They will find a willingness, an eagerness, to cover up past wrongs and to move on with God's help to the next single step of following Him together, forgiven. By God's grace--and only through God's grace and the empowering work of His Spirit--they will know that in my classroom, they will always find love.