Love must be our motive
As my study bible has noted…
Love is:
Patient, kind, unselfish, truthful, hopeful, enduring (1 Cor 13:4-7)
Not envious, proud, self-centered, rude, or provoked to anger (1 Cor 13:4-5)
Without Love:
Tongues are mere noise (1 Cor 13:1)
Prophesy, mysteries, knowledge, and faith amount to nothing (1 Cor 13:2)
Good deeds are unprofitable (1 Cor 13:3)
Do we want to say we spent our time making noise, amounting to nothing, and being unprofitable?
Of course not. So how does love become our motive? We must obey God and be filled and led by His Spirit. Let us pray that we will be obedient to the Spirit as He leads…
