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May 10 - The Love That Gives Meaning · Bible Chat Devotional

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  Welcome to Bible Chat, where we have devotional conversations
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  rooted in Scripture and relevant for today.
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  May 10th. The heart behind the words.
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  Have you ever said something in the heat of the moment and
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  immediately wished you could take it back?
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  Maybe it was a sharp reply to a parent, a sarcastic comment to a
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  friend, or something you typed online without really thinking.
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  We've all been there. And here's the thing.
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  Those moments reveal something deeper than just a bad day.
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  They reveal what's actually going on inside our hearts.
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  Proverbs chapter 15, verses 28 to 29 puts it plainly.
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  The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer, but the
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  mouth of the wicked pours out evil.
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  The Lord is far from the wicked, but He hears the prayer of the
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  righteous. Did you catch that?
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  The righteous person pauses. They think before they speak,
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  not because they're slow or unsure, but because they care
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  about what their words do to people.
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  And God notices that he draws close to a heart that's careful,
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  that's considerate, that's rooted in something good.
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  Now flip over to 1st Corinthians chapter 13, one of the most
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  famous passages in the Bible, and you might think it's just a
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  wedding verse, but honestly, it's one of the most practical
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  guides to everyday life you'll ever find.
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  Verses four and five say love is patient and kind.
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  Love does not envy or boast. It is not arrogant or rude.
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  It does not insist on its own way.
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  It is not irritable or resentful.
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  And then verse 7 adds love bears all things, believes all things,
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  hopes all things, endures all things.
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  That's not a soft, sentimental kind of love.
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  That's a tough daily. Choose it even when it costs you
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  kind of love. And here's what makes it so
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  real. It shows up in conversation
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  every single day. You're in dozens of
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  interactions. A group chat blowing up with
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  drama, a classroom argument that gets personal, a family dinner
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  where someone says something that stings.
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  In every one of those moments, love is either present or it
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  isn't, and the difference is felt.
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  Think about someone in your life right now.
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  Maybe a friend who's been a little distant, or a sibling
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  who's been getting on your nerves, or a classmate you've
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  been quietly judging. What would it look like to
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  respond to them with patience instead of frustration?
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  With kindness instead of sarcasm?
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  With a belief that sees the best in them even when they're not
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  showing their best? It's not easy.
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  Nobody said it was. But First Corinthians 13 doesn't
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  describe love as a feeling you either have or you don't.
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  It describes love as a series of choices.
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  Patient. That's a choice kind.
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  That's a choice. Not insisting on your own way.
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  That is absolutely a choice, and often a hard one.
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  But each of those choices made one at a time, shapes you into
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  someone whose words actually carry weight, someone people
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  trust, someone who reflects God's character in the most
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  ordinary moments of life. And the beautiful thing is, when
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  your heart is being shaped by that kind of love, it changes
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  what comes out of your mouth naturally.
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  You don't have to perform it. You don't have to fake it.
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  It starts to flow from a place that's been quietly transformed
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  by spending time with God, by letting His words sit in your
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  heart, by asking Him to make you more like Him.
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  Your words have power. They can wound or they can heal.
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  They can push people away or draw them closer, closer to you
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  and closer to God. So the real question isn't just
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  what should I say. The deeper question is, what is
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  my heart full of right now? Because whatever fills it will
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  eventually overflow. Let's pray.
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  Heavenly Father, thank you for reminding me that love is not
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  just a feeling, it's a way of living every single day.
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  I know my words don't always reflect the best of what I want
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  to be, and I'm grateful that Your grace covers those moments.
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  Help me to slow down before I speak.
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  Help me to choose patience when I want to react, kindness when I
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  want to be sharp, and humility when I want to be right.
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  Fill my heart so full of your love that it naturally pours
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  into the way I talk to people, my friends, my family, strangers
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  and even people who are hard to love.
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  Guard my tongue and grow my heart in Jesus name, Amen.
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  What if the battles hitting your family are not random and your
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  home can become a place where darkness loses every right to
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  point with prayerful protection. Book 2.
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  Cleansed Rooms helps reclaim spaces marked by fear, unrest,
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  and spiritual defilement. Book 3, Closed Breaches, exposes
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  hidden access points and severs every agreement with darkness.
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  Book 4, Broken Assignments, confronts oppression, torment,
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  and attacks against your family. Book 5, Consecrated Walls,
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  dedicates every space and rhythm of the home to God.
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  Book 6, Abiding Peace, shows how to maintain spiritual order,
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  rest, and holy presence every day.
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  Now I invite you to spend time with God in today's three-year
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  Bible reading plan. Proverbs Chapter 15 Verses 28 to
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  29 World English Bible The heart of the righteous weighs answers,
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  but the mouth of the wicked gushes out evil.
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  Yahweh is far from the wicked, but he hears the prayer of the
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  righteous. First Corinthians Chapter 13
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  World English Bible If I speak with the languages of men and of
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  angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass or a
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  clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy
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  and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all
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  faith so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am
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  nothing. If I give away all my goods to
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  feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned but don't have
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  love, it profits me nothing. Love is patient and is kind.
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  Love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,
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  doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek
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  its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil,
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  doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices
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  with the truth, bears all things, believes all things,
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  hopes all things, and endures all things.
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  Love never fails. But where there are prophecies,
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  they will be done away with. Where there are various
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  languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it
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  will be done away with, for we know in part and we prophecy in
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  part. But when that which is complete
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  has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.
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  When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I
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  thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I
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  have put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror
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  dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I
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  will know fully, even as I was also fully known.
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  But now faith, hope and love remain these three.
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  The greatest of these is love. Thanks for joining us on Bible
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