Love is this.
- Patient
- Kind
Love is not this.
- Envious
- Boastful
- Proud
- Rude
- Self-seeking
- Easily-angered
- Keeper of wrongs
I’m not sure which list is harder.
But this I know: I can become neither list on my own. Without Jesus in me, it’s hopeless.
Once again, as with other verses we’re soaking in this summer (Ephesians 2:8-9, Romans 8:28, John 3:16, etc.), 1 Corinthians 13:4-5 reveal how desperately we depend on Christ’s empowering grace within us to live a transformed life.
We’re memorizing four verses from the famous “Love Chapter” (1 Corinthians 13) this week and next. As we walk these out, let’s encourage each other to look to Jesus–He is the perfect example of Love incarnate.
Jesus is patient, Jesus is kind. Jesus does not envy, He does not boast, He is not proud. . . .
Do you show love easier by doing good things or by not doing bad things?
Who in the flesh has most recently demonstrated Christ’s love to you?
Who most needs to see your love this week?
Please share your thoughts with us.
Do you show love easier by doing good things or by not doing bad things?
Who in the flesh has most recently demonstrated Christ’s love to you?
Who most needs to see your love this week?
4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Wow! As a young adult I thought I knew what true love was until I read the verse above.
I’ve gotten an beautiful example set before us by Christ in the book of John during this summer Hello Mornings Meet Jesus bible study.
I think I show love easier when lead by the Holy Spirit. Alone I can do nothing. No matter how good or minus bad things I do.
Reflecting the example of true love as the scripture states & Jesus walked is a prayer I cry out for and journal on daily.
As I read the scripture my children come to mind In the flesh they demonstrate Christ love to me.
This week everyone I come in contact with from my household, commute to & from work, co- workers, the families I serve,as well as my best friend who is suffering miles away from me dealing with MS, losing her children, served divorce papers, lack of funds & etc.
I ask that our Heavenly Father help me reflect the love of Corinthians that Christ walked out perfectly .
Thank you Lisa, your an encouragement & blessing to my life.
Novella
Your comment makes me think of a favorite line in Matt Maher’s song, “On My Way”:
“You can add up all the things you’ve done
For every good deed, there’s a million bad ones
Can a rich man work to save his soul”
It’s not about how many good or bad things we do; it’s whether or not Jesus is in us that matters and compels us to love others. You have this so right, Novella: “Alone I can do nothing.”
It sounds like God has many people in your path for you to love this week. May He richly enable you to do so!
I think my husband and daughter need to see my love most all the time. I’ve been in a very dark place this last month and I don’t feel there’s a bright spot on the horizon. Thank you for these posts and information you give so freely. I do appreciate it
Amanda, I appreciate your honesty and vulnerability about where you are. Praying that God sends you a beam of light to focus on.
I echo your sentiment that my own husband and daughter need to see my love too–they are the ones I see every single day and therefore the ones I have the most opportunities to do good or ill to. Lord, have mercy.