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Grow in love, and you will be released from envy. How are you going to handle the greater success of other people? It doesn’t really matter how talented or hard-working you are because there will always be someone else who does better, who is paid better, who looks better, and who is better. How do you react?Ĭan you rejoice in the blessing they have received from God? Or do you come away saying, “Why did that not happen for me?”
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You meet up with someone from your college years, and it becomes very obvious that they have prospered more than you. Now, how are you going to respond to that? Whatever you are doing, there is always competition. Here you are serving in ministry – someone else is doing it better. Here you are running a business – someone else is doing it better. Here you are raising a child – someone else is doing it better. Whenever you attempt a good work you will find other men doing the same kind of work and probably doing it better.
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If you want to grow in love, try to bring pleasure to those God has placed around you in every way that you can. Someone has said that “the greatest thing a man can do for his Heavenly Father is to be kind to some of his other children.” The degree to which you are growing in kindness is the degree to which you are growing in love. If I asked, “Do you love your best friend?” most of you would say, “Yes I really love my best friend.”īut if I asked, “Are you generous to your best friend?” there would probably be a range of different answers. We like to flatter ourselves about our character, but God’s Word searches us out. Scripture always brings us down to earth. Growing in love will give you the resilience you need to live in this fallen world. How do you develop that capacity? How do you live in a world like this, when people will wrong you and disappoint you in so many ways?Īnswer: Love will give you the capacity to suffer long. Living in this world, you have to develop the capacity to handle the injuries, disappointments, frustrations, let-downs, conflicts, and offenses that you will experience throughout the course of your life. Jesus said, “In this world you will have trouble!” If you expect to that everybody is going to care for you and seek the best for you in this world, you are going to be disappointed. That’s a wonderful thing because you can’t live in this world without coming across difficult people and desperate situations. Love expands your capacity to put up with difficult people and desperate situations. Grow in patience, and you will deepen your love.Īnother way of translating what Paul says here is “love suffers long.” Do you want them to feel your love? Be patient with him. If you say, “Colin, are you patient with your kids?” I will say, “…Could do better…” If you say to me, “Colin, do you love your kids?” I will say, “Yes, of course I do.” God’s Word has a wonderful way of bringing us down to earth. Seven Distinguishing Marks of Genuine Love 1. Paul gives seven distinguishing marks of genuine love in these verses. Well, 1 Corinthians 13 is the place to begin. So you want to know what love looks like. You have found it difficult to sustain relationships. Now I know in part then I shall know fully, even as ( S)I have been fully known.ġ3 So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three but the greatest of these is love.I think there may be many of us who wonder what love looks like. 12 For ( Q)now we see in a mirror dimly, but ( R)then face to face. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. 11 When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. 9 For ( O)we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but ( P)when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. As for prophecies, they will pass away as for tongues, they will cease as for knowledge, it will pass away. 7 ( M)Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, ( N)endures all things.Ĩ Love never ends. It ( I)does not insist on its own way it ( J)is not irritable or resentful 6 it ( K)does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but ( L)rejoices with the truth. 3 ( C)If I give away all I have, and ( D)if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.Ĥ ( E)Love is patient and ( F)kind love ( G)does not envy or boast it ( H)is not arrogant 5 or rude. 2 And if I have ( A)prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, ( B)so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 13 If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.