Summary: Love gives us a purpose, and our purpose is to LOVE.

Key Scripture (1 Corinthians 13): If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, I gain nothing.

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;[b] it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

What we learn about LOVE:

• Love originates from God, so we love others because God loved us first.
• Love gives us purpose and provides a ways and means for how to act.
• Love is an action/choice that never ends; we must act now and forever.

Important Takeaway: Choose to love in action and in truth because of the great love lavished on you!

Secondary Key Scriptures:

• Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth. 1 John 3:18
• We love because he first loved us. 1 John 4:19
• Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13

Questions and Quotes to Consider:

1. What is my purpose? What drives me? How do I know?
2. "We can't live our lives waiting for "our moment." We must live preparing for it!"
3. Have I chosen to love in action and in truth? What steps can I take to show love to others?

Conclusion:

• Live on Purpose, Love on Purpose
• Love is not just a feeling; it's an action and a choice. Choose Love!