Posts Tagged ‘Bible Study’

Love is not quickly stirred with anger. When we possess “genuine” love, we display kindness, gentleness, patience, and calmness. Love does not explode with anger when others mistreat or misuse us. Nor is it provoked to sudden anger when others fail to say or do what we think they should be saying or doing. Jesus […]

When we possess genuine Christ-like love, we are not always seeking or craving self-interests. Do you spend a lot of time thinking about or striving after your own interests or do you seek the interests and will of God? Aren’t you grateful that Jesus Christ considered our need of salvation and deliverance from the penalty […]

Love does not act unbecomingly. Behaving “unseemly” is when we do not live according to the values that are appropriate to our position or condition as a true disciple of Christ. No need to focus on rules, commands, principles, standards, or disciplines. But simply Christ. Let the many disciplines and virtues we have as Christians […]

Love does not boast of itself. Genuine love does not look for a way to exalt itself. We really need to guard our heart and make sure we have not placed ourselves on a lofty platform of superior rank compared to others. Do you view yourself as being better than others? More “holy” than others? […]

Do you burn with the zeal to be “better” than someone else? Love does not envy the attention someone else may receive. Does it ever rub you the wrong way when someone else is publicly honored and you’re not? True love is not jealous of what someone else may have or do; love genuinely delights […]