When Love Is Your Motivation

“Let all that you do be done in love.” (1 Cor. 16:14 ESV)

When love is your motivation…

• Your attitude toward others will be right

“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.” (1 Cor 13:4-7 ESV)

• Your life will have more harmony

“And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.” (Col. 3:14 ESV)

• People will know you are Christ’s disciple

“By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” (John 13:35 ESV)

• You will be without fear

“There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.” (1 John 4:18 ESV)

• You will abide in God

“So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.” (1 John 4:16 ESV)

• Your reward will be great

“But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.” (Luke 6:35 ESV)

 Therefore…

 “Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.” (1 Peter 4:8 ESV)

“Love one another with brotherly affection. Outdo one another in showing honor.” (Rom. 12:10 ESV)

“Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.” (Rom. 12:9 ESV)

“Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law.” (Rom. 13:8 ESV)

 Quote:

 “The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.” - Dwight L. Moody