The Proof of Your (God's) Love

I've been really liking the song "Proof of Your Love" by For King & Country lately. I love the radio version where the artist reads from the 1 Corinthians 13: 1-3 (MSG).

If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing. If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love.

I love the words used here and the conviction behind them! Without love we are nothing! Without love we have nothing! If you continue into verses 4-8 of the same chapter we get a definition of what Godly love looks like. Love is kind, love is not proud, love is patient, love is not self-seeking, love does not boast or delight in evil. How many of us can truly say our love looks like this? Our culture doesn't promote this type of love. We have to strive to be different! To live and love like Jesus does! Let's stop trying to be better than the person next to us and start showing them how our God loves!