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1 Cor 13:4-7

4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

To end our first week in our daily devotional series on love, for our fifth thing we will look at concerning love, once again is something that love is not.

is not puffed up

Puffed up is pretty simple, because to be puffed up is to be full of pride.
One definition of puffed up is: to inflate, blow up, to cause to swell up

Think of a balloon that you would blow up. As you blow into the balloon it gets full of air and gets stretched. The more you blow it up, the bigger it gets and the more it becomes stretched and thin. Too much and what happens? POP!
So to think about love and pride or puffing up someone is to fill them with empty things, and the more you do it the more they get stretched out until they explode because of the empty talk or lies you give them.

When love is involved there is not a bunch of empty words, but rather words of encouragement and words that lift a person up.

1 Thess 5:11 (NLT) So encourage each other and build each other up, just as you are already doing.

Say all you did was put your husband or wife down all the time. What you are doing is filling them with empty, useless words. After time they would get sick of it and would blow up.
But if you give words of encouragement then it's not emptiness that they are being filled with, but rather something they can use to help others.

So to end this week on love, let's leave on a good note and something from the bible to try and do over the weekend.

Heb 10:24 (NLT) Think of ways to encourage one another to outbursts of love and good deeds.

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