Love is defined both by what it embraces and what it rejects.

I. Love is known by what it embraces.

  • Patience (4)
  • Kindness (4)
  • Joy (6)
  • Forbearance (7)
  • Trust (7)
  • Hope (7)
  • Endurance (7)

II. Love is known by what it rejects.

  • Jealousy (4)
  • Pride. (4)
  • Rudeness (5)
  • Selfishness (5)
  • Touchiness (5)
  • Score-keeping (5)
  • Unrighteousness (6)

But how could such love ever be found in me?

The Spirit’s assignment is to flood across the broad plain of your heart with the love of God, filling every low-lying thought, every hollowed out hurt, every cavernous wrong suffered (Rom. 5:5).

Jesus said, “If anyone thirsts, let him come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.’ Now this he said of the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were to receive …” (John 7:37-39a)

Come to the fountain, the Father. Come in Jesus’ Name. Come asking Him for the Spirit, whose job is to pour into your heart an overflowing flood of His love.