Is It Love?

How do you know if you're in love? True love is more than a sensation —though you may feel on top of the world when you are with the one you love. But feelings can lead you up on a mountain one day and down in a valley the next. The kind of love we need in order to enter a marriage fully prepared, "for better or worse, for richer or poorer ... till death us do part," is a love that is self-sacrificing —a giving of oneself for the sake of the other.

No one on this earth (except Jesus) has ever exhibited perfect love, but what we desire is the most perfect expression of love that is possible. Substitute your name and the name of the person you're considering for marriage in 1 Corinthians 13:4-7 wherever the word love occurs. See how you measure up to the biblical pattern.

________________ is patient.
________________ is kind.
________________ is not jealous.
________________ is not boastful.
________________ is not arrogant.
________________ is not rude.
________________ is not self-seeking.
________________ is not easily angered.
________________ does not hold grudges.
________________ does not delight in evil.
________________ rejoices in the truth.
________________ protects.
________________ trusts.
________________ hopes.
________________ perseveres.