To describe love means to understand it in its context. If I said I love ice cream it would not be the same way in which I love my wife. That’s a good thing too. When a person becomes a Christian, the capacity to love takes on a whole new meaning, because there are also characteristics of love.

In this lesson from 1 Corinthians 13 we read about what love really is. That love is more outward focused and less a desire to satisfy self. The early church in Corinth had new believers who were beginning to understand what it meant to love others. They were having to do this while trying to understand that of all the Spiritual gifts God gives they are really nothing without love as the basis.

Christians today must understand in a world today that says your number one and its all about you must realize that love is not all about you. Actually to love others means your number two. When believers put this practice into their faith they begin to develop an eternal perspective as they reflect the love of Christ in a world which is filled with self.