Fix Your Day with Self-Sacrificing Love

If you are feeling “off” today or out of sync, turning to the Bible will bring you to where you need to be, show you where you are lacking. The following verses in particular, are a perfect reference for checking our behavior daily and keeping sure that we are not just going through the motions. When we are not behaving rightly, our day can go askew because we are out of spiritual alignment.

As I contemplated my own day and mood, I was drawn to 1 Cor, “ . . . though I speak with the tongue of men and angels . . . “ which makes me think I am still lacking in self-sacrificing love. I thought to myself, I don’t know what more to do to become truly charitable. Well, take a look at the list Cheryl, that’s what to do:

First let us read the full script:

1 Corinthians 13:1-11 (KJV)

13 Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling 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, and have not charity, I am nothing.

3 And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

5 Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

6 Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

7 Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.

8 Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

9 For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.

10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

11 When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.

Now, let’s put into terms we can understand. Charity as used in the Bible does not refer to cleaning out the garage and donating to Goodwill (although it is of course good to give), it is many things that we may not have even considered. Charity/love/self-sacrificing love is, and is not, the following:

Ok, it suffers long

It does not envy

It does not brag and is not arrogant

It does not behave improperly

It does not insist on its own way

It is not easily provoked (irritable or resentful)

It rejoices in truth

It bears all things

It believes all things

Hopes all things

Endures all things

It never ends

It does not behave like a child

Sadly, I have done more of these than not today, in a negative way yet I sit here wondering what is wrong with my day. How about you? How are you feeling, how is your day going? Are you seeking something that will help you to improve your own mood or day? How many of these have you done or not done today? Each day? How many are you even aware of?

Learning to truly love is the development of one of the nine fruits of the spirit and should be on our to-do list daily.

If you would like to explore the full list of the Fruit of the Spirit, see Galatians 5:22-23

22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.

Many blessings. 

Cheryl Yale-Bruedigam, CYI-250 

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About Cheryl Yale-Bruedigam

Cheryl Yale-Bruedigam, the angels’ author, has been writing spiritually for thirty years. With undergraduate studies in English and women's studies, she devoted over a decade of research and writing to women’s studies and women's spirituality. For the past five years, she has been diligently working in publishing a series of angelic books as well as "The New Age of Christ." 

Bruedigam is a certified yoga and meditation instructor. She lives in New Mexico with her husband.

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