Title: Love in Action – – Trust
Text:
1 Corinthians 13:7 (ESV)
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Observation:
Today the focus is one of the essential characteristics of love; it is trust. The text in the English Standard Version (ESV) says, “believes all things”. The Amplified Bible renders it this way, “is ever ready to believe the best of every person”.
To love others is a command not a suggestion.
Mark 12:31 (ESV)
The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
What God commands us to do He enables us to do by His power.
Psalm 37:5-6 (ESV)
5 Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act. 6 He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday.
Psalm 143:8 (ESV)
Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust. Make me know the way I should go, for to you I lift up my soul.
In summary, our focal passage for today has the emphasis on relationships between people. True love believes and hopes; it bears and endures. Love cannot survive without trust, and true love never fails; it lasts forever.
Prayer:
Father God, my dear Father, I pray that in my relationship with others I will be known as a trustworthy person. Father God, help me to be a person who when I make a promise I keep it; thereby building trust and love that last forever. Amen.
