How to Live Love: Insights from 1 Corinthians 13

In the bath, where I try to put on my best face before going out in the world, hangs a more critical way to get started. A framed artwork from my husband, bible verses, read at almost every wedding, including mine, on Love. God’s holy word tells us:

“Love is patient, Love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, 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)

Imagine husbands and wives treating each other this way. Imagine what the world would be like if we treated everyone this way. 

The Lord loves us and treats us like this because God is Love. All of those attributes describe his character. If we belong to Him, His spirit lives in us, making it possible for us to live this way too. We would live only to love ourselves and our desires apart from Christ in us.  

When we realize that God sent His very beloved Son to rescue us, we understand how great His Love is. 

Because God is Love and all good, he can’t look at us when we live apart from him. By asking the Lord into our hearts, God sees His Son Jesus covering us. We stand before Him white as snow. Jesus washed away our sin by taking the very punishment we all deserve. Here we see ultimate Love.

“Greater Love has no one than this: to lay down one’s life for one’s friends”(John 15:13)

Jesus calls us friends if we come to Him.  When he lives in us, we can treat the world as friends with Love. The next verse in that passage says it all:

“Love never fails.”

1 Corinthians 13:8

Prayer

1. Read 1 Corinthians 13: 4-7 out loud every day. In place of the word “LOVE,” put your name. Ask God to help you be more like Him. Set your heart on what is good. It will change it! 
2. Ask the Lord to help you turn from negative and destructive thoughts, words, and actions. God is Love and light. Ask Him to protect you from the father of lies and darkness. 

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