The Validation You Have Already Been Given

There is something deeply exhausting about trying to prove yourself. The performance never quite feels like enough. The approval fades. The accomplishments pile up, but the hunger for validation does not go away. Paul points us to a different way. The righteousness of...

What Happens When the Gifts Fade?

Here is a question worth sitting with: what happens to your sense of worth when you can no longer perform the way you once did? Maybe your voice is not what it used to be. Maybe your role at church has changed. Maybe the season of influence you once had has quietly...

The Hidden Root of Lovelessness

Envy and boasting seem like opposites. One person looks at what others have and feels small. Another person talks about what they have and feels superior. But Paul places them side by side in his description of love, and that is not an accident. Both come from the...

Known by Your Love

Devotional Jesus did not say the world would know His followers by their miracles. He did not say they would be recognized by their theological precision or their spiritual gifts. He said they would be known by their love for one another. That is the standard. And it...

Love Never Fails

Devotional Gifts are temporary. Paul is clear about this. Prophecy will cease. Tongues will be stilled. Knowledge will pass away. Everything we build our identity around in this life will eventually come to an end. But love never fails. That phrase is worth sitting...