Does Not Seek Its Own

 I’m Duane Matz and welcome to Today’s Living Word.

 

The greatest proof of the presence of the Holy Spirit in an individual or a congregation is the expression of agape love. But what is love? Today we’ll continue to look at Holy Spirit directed love as found in the love chapter of the Bible….1 Cor 13!

 

We pick it up in verse 5, where we have another example of what agape is not! 1Co 13:5 agape love  does not seek its own.

To put it in the form of a question, love never asks, “What’s in it for me.? Love just asks , “how can I serve you? How can I help you meet your need?” Whole congregations and individuals should always be poised to answer that question.

 

Php 2:3 puts it this way: Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.

 

It’s what Jesus did when He left the glories of heaven to take on human flesh. It wasn’t s matter of “What’s in it for me, it was what’s in it for  fallen men. Php 2:5 Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, 6 who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, 7 but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.

 8 And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.

 

He didn’t come to seek perfect men, (there aren’t any, only some who think they are, but all have sinned) He came for those in need of a spiritual physician!

 

Lu 5:30 And their scribes and the Pharisees complained against His disciples, saying, "Why do You eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?" 31 Jesus answered and said to them, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. 32 "I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance."

 

Love doesn’t seek atta boys and rewards, it seeks to consider the needs of others above your own.

 

I’m Duane Matz and that’s Today’s Living Word