FAITH CAPSULE: The purpose of the command is to love. 

1 Corinthians 13

One who does not know how to love does not know God.
God is love.
Love belongs to God.
Love is demonstrated by action but rooted in faith. 
The purpose of the command is to love. 
God gave His commandment so that love can exist among all. 
One who abstains from stealing, lying, or deceiving others testifies to God’s love.
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.”  (1Timothy 1:5))
Before God, are you living life with love? 
In the world of selfishness, living as commanded to love is not possible.
Claiming to love without loving with a pure heart, a good conscience, and sincere faith is empty love. 
In a world of self-centeredness, living in the love of God with sincere love is lacking.
Are you living as commanded by the word of God?
When the love of God is not in place, fulfilling God’s command to live 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.” 
Apostle Paul points out that a believer can demonstrate the gifts of God, such as speaking in tongues, prophesying, and 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 it but do not know how to live by the command to love.
Are you open to the word of God?
The word of God speaks to all the heart.
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, look 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 that living by the word of God be established in your life.