What's Love Got To Do With It?
 
'LOVE IS' 1 Corinthians 13:4

 

Loving when you least feel like it and they least deserve it, is when you love like God. That kind of love can actually transform others in the same way that Christ's love transforms us. (See Ephesians 5:25-27). What's love got to do with it? Everything! Listen: 'Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres' (1 Corinthians 13:4-7). Based on what you've just read, evaluate the quality of your love. (1) Do you suffer patiently when others are being difficult? (2) Are you kind, even when they are not? (3) Do you refuse to envy them, or anything in their life? (4) Do you make a point of giving them the credit? (5) Do you refuse to treat them rudely? (6) Do you refuse to demand your own way? (7) Do you refrain from using threats or uncontrolled anger? (8) Do you take no pleasure when something bad happens to them? (9) Do you tell them the truth, even when it's difficult? (10) Do you handle 'graciously' whatever comes? (11) Do you believe in them, even when they don't believe in themselves? (12) Do you love them regardless? Well - how did you do?