purpose in every step

It’s Valentine’s Day weekend! I get so excited when I think about my wife and the love we share and get to celebrate. It’s not a perfect love…we aren’t perfect people…but it is a growing love.

I’ve come a long way over the last 10 years with her. I can be pretty selfish at times. In fact, that is the number one thing that scares me about having our baby girl. Will I be able to put aside my wants to give her all she needs and wants.

How does your love measure up? Not just in some boyfriend/girlfriend relationship, but to your family…friends…or even perfect strangers?

Read 1 Corinthians 13:1-7 and see how it measures up.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.