4 - Love Does Not Boast

With love there is an empathy and awareness for others that is freed fromthe need for self-promotion. Where there is boasting others are unable tosee or experience love.While declaring the attributes, experiences, accomplishments,acquirements of self there is no ability to remove this self focus longenough to care about what someone else is experiencing.Love is the freedom from self and its need to be appreciated by others.The most valuable things to us have been given and established byGod and have nothing to do with the temporal and less valuable thingsthat could be attributed to self.With the removal of self-focus, a place is made for love to beexpressed.

Application:Prayer Father, I pray that the most valued treasures of my heart wouldbe those things that have been given to me in Christ. Free me from theneed to boast about the minimal and temporary things about myself thatwould keep me from empathizing with what others are going through.Intentional action: Before and while engaging in conversation allowinterest in the other person to be greater than attempting to exposesomething impressive in you.Ask the Holy Spirit to help you to redirect focus from self to empathize withothers, their interests, and their needs. In prayer yield to this

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