He told Dr. King how his father could not understand him and how they had grown apart. He has not had many of your educational opportunities, opportunities which your father has provided for you. If I give away all that I have, and if I deliver my body to be burned, but have not love, I am nothing. Remember, Paul was probably talking to people who had lost everything when they became Christians, people who had been disinherited, divorced, forsaken by their families. This makes all the more astounding what he says about love.
Love bears all, believes all, hopes all, endures all.
Loves cares more for others than for self. Love doesn t want what it doesn t have. Love doesn t strut, doesn t have a swelled head, doesn t force itself on others, isn t always me first, doesn t fly off the handle, doesn t keep score of the sins of others, doesn t revel when others grovel. Love takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, puts up with anything, trusts God always, always looks for the best, never looks back, but keeps going to the end. As Christians, as faithful followers of our Lord, we are to live as He lived.