1 Corinthians 13:4

"Love is patient, love is kind, it does not envy, it does not boast it is not proud"

Perfect love... only God has it down to a T. Love is a word I throw around looser then I should. Love is such a deep word. In this verse alone it has 5 different ways of being expressed. By doing or not doing. Only with the help of the Holy Spirit can we even begin to act like this perfect love.

I find it interesting how love is the big deal! This chapter is right in between the two chapters that talk about spiritual giftings. God knows our hearts and our intentions... and we should want our motivation to be love.

These verse gives you how do, and the opposite of what we should do. With kindness there is no room to be proud or boastful if you are truly kind. Again with patients, its our envy and pride that keeps us from wanting to be and stay patient.

Pride. Ugh. I don't want to be held by pride. It is so hurtful between my walk with God as well as relationships with others. Pride assumes the worst from people, and makes you think you have the right to judge. News flash, that's so wrong! We shouldn't be doing that! We cant give into justifying  ourselves but look down on others. today if I get a proud thought or envy for any reason I will say something kind to them who I am thinking bad of, or ill just think of a verse to get my brain out of that train of thoughts.