FAITH CAPSULE: One that does not know to love does not know God.

1 Corinthians 13

God is love.
Love belongs to God.
Love is demonstrated by action but rooted in faith. 
The purpose of the command of God is love. 
God gave His commandment so that love can exist among man. 
One that abstains from stealing, lying, or deceiving others testifies to the love of God.
1Timothy 1:5 records the purpose of God: “Now the purpose of the commandment is love from a pure heart, from a good conscience, and from sincere faith, from which some, having strayed, have turned aside to idle talk.” 
Are you living life with love, as commanded by God? 
To live by the purpose of God is not common in a world where man is full of self. 
Claiming to love without loving with pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith is empty love. 
In a world with no good conscience, love is not a way of living life. 
In a world of self-centeredness, engaging others with sincere faith is a strange thing. 
Are you living as commanded by the word of God?
When the love of God is not in place of one, fulfilling the command of God becomes questionable. 
Paul the apostle identifies 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. 2 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. 3 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 Paul points out that though a believer can demonstrate the gifts of God such as: speaking in tongues, prophesying, reaching out to the needy but yet not with love. 
All demonstration of love that is not rooted in the heart is empty and carries no weight before God. 
Many know about the command of God but not knows.
The word of God speaks and gains entrance to ones with ears that will hear. 
Are you demonstrating as a prophet but not evidence of loving in your way of life?
Matthew 7:22-23 records what to expect from the Lord at His appointed time stating, “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!’” 
Today, examine yourself by looking into the word of God, see your right or wrongdoing.
Live the life of the love of God.
Man can always deceive man, but not God.

Prayer for today: Ask to live life by the command of God to love.