The Gift of Love

This post is from a sermon I heard last night. The speaker was Evangelist Will Galkin. He preached on the gift of love and how love cares about others not yourself. The passage he used was 1 Corinthians 13. I encourage you to go through and read that entire book but especially that chapter. I'm going to put my notes from last night below. I hope these help you:)

"None of us can be selfless without God."
1 Corinthians 13

• Gifts are made for giving and sharing with love. (gifts can also be talents)
• vs. 2 ~ "if I have all faith, so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing."
• Christ was and is completely selfless.
• We need to stop caring about 'me' and start caring about others.
• Love and patient and kind.
• Love is not jealous. Love stops talking and starts listening.
• Love is not caring about 'me' but instead caring about others.
• We need to love and care for others more than we do ourselves.
• Love is not self-seeking.
• Our only idol should be God; not tv, not friends, not sports, etc.
• Your anger reveals your idols.
• We let anger get in the way of our love.
• Don't "keep score" of peoples' faults.
• Love brings hope and mercy.
• Love endures all things.

Some of you may be thinking about that one person that you couldn't possibly love. I did the same thing. While I was listening to this I kept thinking about this one person that I have ignored, disliked, and talked about and thought about it. Could I love? I made a decision last night that no matter what that person (or any person) I would still love them. But only through Christ is that possible. So, I guess this could also be a challenge. I challenge you (and me) to love others more than you love yourself. But remember you can't do it without God! I would like to ask y'all to pray for me because this is going to be hard and I know it will be for you too. I hope this post encourages you to love through Christ alone. Have a great day!