What does love require of me?  This is the relationship question.  This is a question that really tugs at your heart if you ask it honestly.  And here’s why...it is a much more subjective question.  If you REALLY want to make this question difficult, then you must tie in another element, which goes like this:  “Knowing what I know about Jesus and the love He gave to me, what does love require of me?”.  Ouch.    And, look at this, there is ample suggestion of what love actually is if we open up scripture to what is often referred to as the wedding or love chapter:

1 Corinthians 13:4-8

4 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

8 Love never ends.

So, we know these:

Now, that’s a list.  But, back to our question, what does that list, if that’s the example we are following, what does THAT require of me?

Talk about a heck of a standard...that’s hard.  Imagine if everyone asked that question when plotting their choices in life.  Wow.  That would be unbelievable.