Over the last couple weeks I have been listening to Proof of Your Love, by For King & Country, a catchy tune with a very dynamic message.
The song is based on 1 Corinthians 13:1-7
If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.
2 If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing.
3-7 If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.
Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first,”
Doesn’t fly off the handle,
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others grovel,
Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,
Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always,
Always looks for the best,
Never looks back,
But keeps going to the end.
Wow I have never looked at love so deeply before, but it makes perfect sense. If we do not have love, we are nothing. Not just saying we love each other, but actually making love an action word. What does love look like in action?
Well we should always look toward Jesus to give us the perfect example. First of all, it is putting everyone else before you. This looks a lot like your mother or your wife of your children. At least that is what my wife shows. She always puts everyone else first, especially her family, and I know it is out of love.
Matthew 22:37-40 Jesus said, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence.’ This is the most important, the first on any list. But there is a second to set alongside it: ‘Love others as well as you love yourself.’ These two commands are pegs; everything in God’s Law and the Prophets hangs from them.”
Right here Jesus tells us that love is the first and greatest command.
John explains it as well:
When We Practice Real Love
1 John 3:18-20 My dear children, let’s not just talk about love; let’s practice real love. This is the only way we’ll know we’re living truly, living in God’s reality. It’s also the way to shut down debilitating self-criticism, even when there is something to it. For God is greater than our worried hearts and knows more about us than we do ourselves.
Yeah, I know it’s real hard to love others first and to show love to someone who is upsetting you. It’s also hard when things are not going your way, but maybe that’s why things are not going your way, lack of love.
Remember Jesus showed His ultimate love for us, by dying on the cross for your sins. So if you think that love is hard, try a cross on for size!
DC Talk also sang about love in Luv is a Verb
Words come easy but don't mean much
When the words they're sayin' we can't put trust in
We're talkin' 'bout love in a different light
And if we all learn to love it would be just right
Put love into action this week and see what happens in your life.
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