Without This You are Nothing
Without this:
- your friendships are nothing
- your marriage is nothing
- your time with your kids is nothing
- your work ethic is nothing
- your skills and talents and abilities are nothing
- your church involvement is nothing
- your spiritual gifts are nothing
- your offerings are nothing
- your good intentions are nothing
- your faith is nothing
. . . you are nothing.
Do you know what “this” is? The answer is…love. If you think this assessment is too harsh, reread 1 Corinthians 13:1-3. Once those verses shake you up a little bit, join us this week as dozens of us memorize Paul’s description of love.
Highlight these verses in your Bible and/or write them a note card. Read them out loud every day. Meditate on their meaning. Pray them into your heart. Celebrate them in worship. And don’t forget the goal: application — apply these verses to your relationships.Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. (1 Corinthians 13:4-8a)
To love others like this is to love them the way you have been loved by God in Christ. To love others like this is to be a gospel-shaped person. To love others like this is to have a life that really means something.
