Do you have perfect love?

I can already answer the above question for myself…no! Do I desire to have perfect love for all people…yes! I hope you do too. 

Thomas Kempis helps us to understand how to have this perfect love with this statement: “He who has true and perfect charity (love) seeks self in nothing, but searches all things for the glory of God.”

The only way to have perfect love is to first put others first and second to make sure all we do if for God’s glory. Not easy to do, huh?

What does God’s Word say to this?

Philippians 2:3
3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

1 John 4:7-8
7 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Colossians 3:17
17 And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.

Colossians 3:23
23 And whatever you do, do it heartily, as to the Lord and not to men,

So is your love perfect? Strive for it and glorify God!

Tom