Take a Moment for a Daily Devotion
We don’t have to wait until life falls apart to find out whether our walk with God is true or not. The emotional response to what we think and believe is revealing whether we are on the right path.
What if the reason we struggle to love others fully is that our hearts have been divided among too many things? The distractions and idols we cling to can fragment our hearts, leaving us with less to give. But as we release those attachments and walk in God’s truth, He begins to restore our hearts, allowing us to love others more fully and glorify Him with our whole hearts.
When plans are thwarted, the aftermath is anger, anxiety, and depression. But when our goal is love, we have joy instead of depression, peace instead of anxiety, and patience instead of anger.
Biblical love isn’t primarily about how we feel toward someone, but how we choose to act toward them. And when we feel like we simply can’t love someone, we can remember that God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit.
What if 1 Corinthians 13 is telling us something more active about love than we often realize? A closer look at Paul’s words reveals that biblical love isn’t merely a feeling or an abstract idea—it is behavior, expressed through the way we actively treat one another.
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1 Corinthians 13 describes a beautiful kind of love that can feel impossible to live out on our own. The truth is, we were never meant to manufacture God’s love through effort or good works. As we abide in Christ, let go of false beliefs, and grow in our relationship with Him, His love begins to flourish within us and flow naturally to others.