From: Boyd Bailey Ministries
1 Corinthians 13:13 "And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
Love is the highest and best motivation. Like beauty pageant contestants, faith and hope accompany love as the top three finalists, but love is crowned the winner. It reigns because it brings out the very best in the lover and the one being loved. Similar to an invisible force field, love protects us from ourselves and compels us to give ourselves to others. It generates goodwill and garners trust.
Love is loyal when most are disloyal. Love steps up when some step away. Love believes the best and doesn’t think to assume the worse. Love looks out for the interests of loved ones above its own needs. Love loves when unloved, love loves when lonely and love loves when loved. Love loves the unlovely, the unconcerned and the underutilized. Love looks for potential where impatience sees disappointment.
Furthermore, make sure your motivation for love is inspired out of your intimacy with Christ. The more consistent your love relationship with Jesus, the more capacity you have to love. The world’s noise drowns out the gentle words of Jesus, "I love you," but in your daily quiet time you hear and feel His presence. God’s love motivates you to love with intentionality!
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