Love Would Not Let Me Be

"They" could have made me hate myself,
But Love would not let me be

Would have had me filled with self-doubt and fear,
But Love would not let me be

Had me distrusting at every turn,
But Love would not let me be

Love hoped in me, trusted in me.
Kept no record, of my wrongs.

Was patient with me falling short,
Showing me nothing but His kindness and grace

Love loved me in my unloveliness,
Helped me to "see" the beautiful in all things.

Saw through my rudeness, the expression of hurt,
Pulling me closer, than at arm’s length.

Showed me without competition or envy
That there’s room for us all to grow,
Freeing me from all that confined.

Love drew me to the secret of intimacy.
When haughtily puffed up, I would have walked away.

Love looked out for me at every turn.
Refusing to budge, when I provoked no love,
By passion, His gaze solely fixed on me.

Love rejoiced over my every step.
Always; believing in me,
Always seeing the good in me.

When others mocked at my past mistakes
Love cheered me on, till truth prevailed.

What would I have done without you love?
How could I bear this without you there?
Lifting up my head, helping me to endure.

I owe my all to you love; I owe all of me to love.
I owe my heart to the most eminent of hearts.
The greatest of those who do not fail.
The one who by faith, against all hope,
Believed in the hope, that I founded in love,
Would in love at last be found…

© OluPero Mettabel, May 25, 2012




1 Corinthians 13
New King James Version (NKJV)

The Greatest Gift
13 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

2 And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge,
and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor,
and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;

5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil;

6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.

 For we know in part and we prophesy in part.

10 But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.

11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child,
I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face.
Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.

13 And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.