My final application from 1 Cor. came from the love chapter – 13:4-7. My desire is not to feel all lovey dovey with the flutterbys going everywhere with the rainbow in the sky and the birds chirping, but to really understand the eternal impact that you can have in people’s lives by living out in love. The more I understand love the more I understand God, the more I see God’s character the more clear my view of love is, the more I make love my aim the more God fills me with his love, the more that love overflows onto everyone around me. It all starts with love – it all starts with God. Without this love, his undying perfect, unrelenting gracious and merciful love there would be no cross, there would be no life, there would be no me. I need to more purposefully dedicate myself to living out love in its fullness – in every way its described from 1 Cor. 13:4-7. Each day I’m going to pray and beg the Lord to work through me in his grace to reveal his love in me so I can reveal it to others. For the next 2 weeks I’m going to meditate on this list and ask the Lord to show me which one he wants me to work on for that day. I want to be able to put my name next to all of them.
_____is patient and kind
_____does not envy or boast
_____is not arrogant or rude
_____does not insist on his own way
_____is not irritable or resentful
Eric does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth
_____bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things
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