Dictionary Definition –
1. A feeling of intense desire and attraction toward a person with whom one is disposed to make a pair; the emotion of sex and romance.
2. A deep tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward a person, such as that is among from kindship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a sense of underlying oneness.

Clearly neither of these definitions express the true love we find in our personal relationship with Jesus Christ, but only do they express a temporary love we find only "of the world."

If you have your Bible please follow along in 1 Corinthians chapter 13. This devotion would make a lot more sense if you have your Bible to follow along in the scripture.

1 Corinthians 13 –
13:1-3: Without Love, all is nothing.
- You can talk the talk all you want but have not you love in your actions, all your words mean nothing. Your words would only be noise.
- Having infinite faith and prophecy is all well and good but in the absence of love they are nothing.
- Without love, one gains nothing. Anything good you do is useless unless love is present.
- All Godly things are motivated by love.
- Even a supreme sacrifice could mean nothing without love, however Christ had so much love for us when he died on the Cross for us that it accomplished eternal forgiveness. =-)

13:4-7: Description of true love
- True love will achieve nothing negative.
- Love cannot lie v.6
- Love is giving up what you have for others, even we you don’t want to.
- Love is being sincerely nice to the people you can’t stand.
- Notice many of the standards of love follow in directly with the Ten Commandments.
- Repetitive use of “always”, true love will never stop…it will never fail.

13:8-12: Power of Love
- Love will never stop
- Love can stop or initiate powerful things v.8
- When “perfection” come the imperfect will disappear, all the bad will stop for then it is useless.
- Love can grow and mature.
- Love is relative to age.
- We know the Lord indirectly and have an imperfect reflection, when we go to be with Him we will know Him face to face.

13:18: Love is the Greatest
- Paul describes faith, hope, and love as the building blocks of the Christian walk
- The greatest of these is love
- Love is the element that connects all the other good things in our Christianity. It is the adhesive that will hold them all together. Without love, no good can exist…without love for others the Kingdom of God would crumble, but it never will because God has SO much love for us.

Romans 12:9-21: How to express love and why.
- Love is putting others before yourself
- It’s being joyful and loving other just because He first loved us.
- Love is trusting entirely to the LORD, even when you don’t know why, trust Him and love Him because you are where you are for a reason….just be patient….be still and listen.