This week's devotion is entitled:
This is vital knowledge to have before entering a committed relationship. What is love? We know that spousal love is supposed to be as intense, caring, real, true, and unconditional as Christ's love for the church. But what is love itself?
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. Love does not demand its own way. Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged. It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
The Bible says that love is the greatest spiritual gift and that love should be our highest goal. But let me take a minute to tell you what love is not before you rush off to fulfill that scripture: it is not angry or abusive, it is not a physical thing, it is not a noun but a verb, it is not selfish or needy, it is not chemistry, it is not infatuation, it is not impure, and it is not ungodly in any way.
This week I encourage you all to take on the biblical view of what love is and keep it.
~1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (NLT)