Communion and Love: A Believer’s LifestyleSample

Love is an action

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

1 Corinthians 13 is the great love chapter. God pulls back the curtain on love and tells us exactly how He feels about love for people: Without love, you have nothing. You may have many great characteristics, but if you don’t love people, you have nothing at all.

Love is not primarily a feeling, but an action. It is a verb. Love people in concrete, practical, everyday ways.

Love is radically focused on others. It is the most immense unselfishness.

Love never quits on people and never gives up. Love endures. Love is the greatest thing of all. Faith is vital. Hope is essential. But love? Love is supreme.

Let me challenge you: Decide that you will devote the rest of your life to loving people. Love outlandishly, outrageously, lavishly. Love fiercely and relentlessly. Decide that you will give your life to love—loving God first, but also loving people. Decide to prioritize love over all else, because God prioritizes love over all else. Decide to give yourself to love, because you were made to love. You were put on this planet to love.

Choose to love people. Dismiss any flimsy excuse like, “That’s just not the way I am.” Nonsense! You were made to love people, and God commands you to love people. Love with all you’ve got. Love like you’ve never loved before. Devote the rest of your life to becoming a big-hearted lover of people. Let God so fill you with His love that it spills over to other people. It spills over freely and lavishly so that other people can bask in the fountain of God’s pure love.

Love! Love family and friends. Love neighbors and coworkers. Love strangers and enemies. Love one and all. Love somebody. You’ve got to love somebody. Because if you don’t have love, you have nothing at all.