Love-o-Meter

3/14/11

Want to check out your love life or love-o-meter for others? Francis Chan suggests in his book, Crazy Love, that you insert your name where love or its pronoun are mentioned in I Corinthians 13:4-8. Do that for each phrase as you read aloud this Monday’s passage for meditation.

Dotsy is patient. Dotsy is kind. Dotsy does not envy. (You get the “convicting” idea.)

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.

God calls us to love. To love Him and others as ourselves. Too often we love ourselves above all else. God measures our lives by how we love. (Chan, 93) How is your love-o-meter looking?