1Co 13:4 ¶ Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily.

Is Not Boastful, Does Not Display Itself Haughtily

Love is a lifestyle that does nothing from selfishness or for ones own gain. That is of course if you want to live by the love example of Jesus. Being a braggart or being boastful and haughty is not the example of how Jesus lived His life. When Paul wrote to his supporters in Philippi he told them how they should love. To explain his exhortation to them he gave them the attitude of Jesus as the prime example of how to walk the love walk.

Phil. 2:5  Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus,

6  who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God,

7  but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.

8  And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.

To walk like Jesus has to be the absolute mindset if you want to ever live the same walk in this kind of Love. First He knew who He was and that He did not consider it robbery to be equal with God. Wow, He knew He was the incarnate Word of God. John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God. He knew He was God, yet He made Himself of no reputation.  No reputation is the exact opposite of boasting. He didn’t come to bring glory to Himself but to Glorify His Father.

Joh 14:13 “And whatever you ask in My name, that I will do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

The Jesus type of love comes to bring Glory to God and not to oneself. Though He was superior to all those whom He encountered He decided to take the form of a bondservant, living life like a man. A servant attitude was what He displayed and lived.

Mt 20:28 “just as the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.”

He came in the appearance and likeness of mankind. He became acquainted with our feelings and all that we experience in life.

Heb 4:15 For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all [points] tempted as [we are, yet] without sin.

Even though He never once sinned Jesus never condemned one sinner. When He encountered sinners He was always full of Grace and Mercy. He would heal them, deliver them, and love them enough to tell them to go and sin no more (Jn.5:14; Jn. 8:11) He never displayed Himself to be proud or haughty, but humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death. Wow. True humility has within it the full surrender of ones self to the will of the Father, just as Jesus did in the Garden prayer. That is true humility, willing to be obedient even to death, the death of the cross. That means that when I disobey God it is my pride that must die if I want to ever attain to the kind of love that is obedient even to death.

“Father, I ask that You would give me a heart filled with this kind of love. The love that would obey You even to the point of death;  death of my will, my pleasure, my comfort and looking out only for myself. Let me love like your Son Jesus in true humility of obedience to Your command to love You above all and my neighbor as myself. Amen.

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