06/17/2026
Read 1 Corinthians 13:4-8. This chapter is often referred to as the “love chapter”. You may have heard it read at a wedding. Immediately preceding the verses listed here, the Apostle Paul tells us that if we speak in tongues, prophesy, and have faith that can move mountains, but are not loving, we are nothing, merely clanging gongs that make a lot of noise but accomplish very little. Then here, in verses 4-8, he defines for us what love looks like lived out. Are you filled with the love of God, today? Are you fulfilling the Greatest Commandment, loving God with all your heart, soul, and mind, and loving your neighbor as yourself? Use these verses as a way to honestly evaluate your heart, motives, actions, and words, today.
Ask yourself:
Am I patient? Am I kind? Am I envious? Am I boastful? Am I arrogant? Am I rude? Am I insistent on my own way? Am I irritable? Am I resentful? Do I rejoice in wrongdoing? Do I bear with others? Do I believe the best for others? Do I hope the best for others? Does my love for others have endurance? Does my love for others end when I don’t get my way?
In what way are you falling short? Repent and ask God to grow and mature you in love, today. Read 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 once more.
Let’s Pray:
Lord, fill me with your love, today. Give me a heart full of compassion for others. Help me remember that every person is made in your image and that Christ died for all people, and help me to treat others like I believe this to be true. Help me use these verses to honestly evaluate my words, actions, and relationships today. I repent for the ways in which I am not loving. Forgive me, Lord. Grow me in faith and mature me in love, so that I might not live a fruitless life making a lot of noising but accomplishing little for your kingdom. Instead, help me love you with all that I am, and love others like you love me. Thank you for loving me at full capacity at all times. In Jesus’ name I pray,
Amen.