If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
1 Corinthians 13:1
“Although we love each other deeply, I know there will be times when we’ll fail to be there for one another. That’s when we’ll go to the Lord to receive in abundance what we lack.” These words of wisdom were spoken by a twenty-four-year-old woman who had just become engaged. If only more marriages began this way! For even though we’ve prayed for godly mates, and then relied on His guidance, there will still be times when our attempts to love are less than perfect.
However, if both man and woman turn back to God’s blueprint, harmony can be restored. “Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails” (1 Corinthians 13:4–8).
Why don’t more people tap in to this resource? To truly love someone means that we will always place that person’s welfare above our own. This, after all, is how God loves us.
Lord, help me exhibit true love.
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Today’s reading was adapted from Daily Wisdom for Women: 2013 Devotional Collection with permission from Barbour Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. Reading was written by Carol Lynn Fitzpatrick.