Catechism continued:

Question number 10000:

What does the bible teach us in I Corinthians 13:4?

I Corinthians 13:4

As an expansion of the explanation of the fruit of the Spirit, I Corinthians 13 stands as a monument to the truth that Love is God and God is love.

God lends us a bit of himself in His attribute and more than an attribute being the essence of love!  God truly is the essence of love.   He has, throughout scripture revealed himself as targetted and true in his being the essence of love.

Examples of His expression of his unmerited and yet very targetted love toward all of his creation, but especially to mankind.

Many groups of people have used the documentation of ICor. 13 as a lofty symbolic ascent to the theory of love.

Love does something...

Suffer

God suffers with us and he shows throughout scripture that his great intention for all people groups is to call them his own.  He intends to save us individually and He intends to save us as a culture.  He yearns and condescends and goes to great lengths to show Himself as the greatest lover!

We imitate him when we are truly targeted in our love of others to make them better.  We are limited and we cannot love or save anyone, the way God can.

But Corinthians arrow of examples of how we can imitate God in love is a tiny flashlight to our true significance as people, made in the image of God!.