Love does not envy. Here's Nancy DeMoss Walgamuth. How do you respond when your mate gets attention or honor or praise that you know because you live with them that they don't really deserve? You get jealous? What's the key to dealing with this issue of jealousy, comparison, contention that flows out of this jealousy, the key

is to live a life of love, to put on love, to pursue love, to learn to love in God's way.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast with Nancy DeMas Walgamuth, author of How's Your Love Life?

For February 10th, 2022, I'm Dana Gresh.

Here's Nancy, continuing in a series called How's Your Love Life?

Well, we're taking a little love test as the scripture encourages us to put our lives under the magnifying glass of God's word

and see if there's any little tiny flaws or defects in the diamond of our love for the Lord and for others.

Looking at that great hymn of love, 1 Corinthians chapter 13.

I want to encourage you again to be reading this passage every day for at least 30 days

and then to be memorizing that middle paragraph versus 4 through 7.

Let me read that paragraph again.

I think it's so important to hear these characteristics over and over again.

And I can tell you what's been happening to me as I've been letting this passage search my heart.

God is opening up areas of my life that are unloving that I didn't even realize we're there.

Areas of need, and I'm having to agree with God and say, that's right.

That's who I am, and I need you to change me.

I need you to fill me with your love.

1st Corinthians 13 tells us if we don't have this kind of love, no matter what else

we may do, no matter how much we may know or how active we may be in serving the Lord,

that our service and our knowledge is worth nothing if we don't have this kind of love.

What are the characteristics of that love? Love suffers long and is kind. We've looked at those two characteristics.

We've seen that love is patient. It doesn't retaliate. It doesn't take vengeance. It doesn't get even.

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