FAITH CAPSULE: He did not command what is impossible to obey. 

1 Corinthians 13

Without exception, all should love their neighbor as themselves.
One not loving by word or by action is evidence of the agent of evil.
Anyone without love is not with God, and at a distance from God.
Are you loving others as the word of God commands?
Paul the apostle states the importance of love in 1 Corinthians 13:1-3, “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.” 
The word of Apostle Paul identifies that demonstrating the gifts of God, such as speaking in tongues, prophesying, reaching out to the needy, and making oneself available when or where there is a need, but without having love, is empty, and nothing counts before God. 
To love is commanded by God.
Preaching love and not living by loving others is not complete before God.
Jesus meant what He said, “Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’”(Matthew 7:22-23) 
Are you obedient to self-selected but not to all of the commands of God?
It is possible to be deceived or lie in the presence of God, manipulating brethren, but God can see the heart of all.
The apostle Paul also describes what love is about, “Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”(1 Corinthians 13:4-7) 
The description of love, as Apostle Paul identifies, is that the world will turn around for the better.
To love as commanded by God must be in truth and deed.
To love is not impossible, but love as God expects from all.
God is a good God; He did not command what is impossible to obey. 
One who loves as commanded by God will count before God as one who fully obeys God, as Galatians 5:14 speaks to all, “For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” 
Always know for yourself if you love as commanded by God.

Prayer for today: Ask to be enabled to live a life of loving as obedience to the command of God, avoiding a life of waste.