What Love Is Like

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Title: What Love Is Like
Keywords: “love”
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Passage: 1 Corinthians 13:4-7*

4. Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant,

5. does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,

6. does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

7. bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Questions

1. Which of love’s qualities is most striking to you as you read these verses?

 

2. Who displays theses qualities to perfection?

 

Practical help

These verses name at least 15 different qualities of love. No one exhibited and lived these qualities more than Jesus did. Love is like Jesus!

The world we are living in can’t keep the difference between love and lust straight. Unlike lust, Jesus’ kind of love is focused on others. Lust is completely selfish and consumed with self while love is free from self-centeredness.

The porn user is consumed with the desire to please himself or herself. Lusting after digital images only leaves the heart empty and in need of something real. The love of Jesus is authentic and satisfying. A focus on Him and giving of ourselves to others brings joy and peace.

This “Jesus” kind of love may not seem to come naturally to us. In fact we may wonder at times if we are capable of loving others like Jesus does. The good news is that now, by His grace, it is possible for us to practice and walk in his love (See Romans 5:5) because of the transforming work of the Holy Spirit in us!

Pornography is not part of our walk today in Jesus’ kind of love. Don’t let yourself be deceived! Look to the Lord abiding in you and walk in His love.

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