Talk Together

Family conversations with God’s Word.

How do you show love to other people? Do you draw them fun pictures or write them a nice note? Maybe you spend time with them, help them do something or tell them you love them with your words?

During Jesus’ time on Earth, He taught His disciples to love one another. But Jesus didn’t just talk about love; He showed it! Think about the great love He had for us when He died for our sins and ended the separation between us and God! That’s amazing love!

The disciples had many opportunities to show God’s love to others, and so do you! Love may be hard to describe; but throughout the Bible, God teaches us all about love! Can you help me find 1 Corinthians chapter 13, verses 1-8?

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If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.

Did you notice all the ways Paul describes love? He tells us love is patient, kind and rejoices with the truth. It bears all things (protects), believes all things, hopes all things and endures all things (doesn’t give up).

God also tells us what love does not do. Love does not envy, boast, be arrogant, rude or insist on its own way. Love is not irritable, resentful or something that rejoices in wrongdoing. Love does not end.

God has loved us so much and wants us to show His love to others! This week, look for someone you can show God’s love to!