The Psalmsinger Pages 

In Love...  For the Common Good...  Love is the Best

Equipping the Saints
The Purpose 
We need to Grow
A Unified Body

How the Body Works - Unity in Diversity
Don't Need to be Ignorant
The Witness of the Spirit
Diversity
Unity
Nobody Gets Left Out

How the Body Works - A Look at the Gifts
The Manifestation of the Spirit
Given
For the Common Good
A Brief Look
How the Body Works - The Divine Design
The Spirit is the Source
One Body
God's Irrigation System
Jew's or Greeks, Slave or Free
How the Body Works - Healthy Body or Hurting Units?
We All Need Each Other
Good and Evil Dwell Together
Jesus is Lord
I Don't Need Anybody
Honor the Least
Love What the Lord Loves
From Hurting to Rejoicing
Are We All the Same?

How the Body Works - Love is the Best
The Maturity of the Body
Love Enriches
Love Edifies
Love Endures
Some things Don't Last
Love is Forever

Love does not envy.

Envy is not coveting.  When we covet something, we want something that someone else has.  We want their possession.  When we envy, we want their life!  We want the stature or position that someone else has.  When we love, we can look at someone else and be happy for their success.  We do not want their job, we want the job that God has for us!

Love does not boast.

This goes back to what Paul taught in chapter 12.  We don't have anything to brag about.  Everything we have that pertains to eternity is from Him.  Our salvation is from Him.  Our blessings are from Him.  It is all His.  When we take what is His and make it ours, we cheapen it.  We make it less effective and certainly less attractive.  No one enjoys being around a braggart.  My Dad used to say, "he who toots his own horn will not be tooted."  If you want nice things to be said about you, don't say them about yourself.

Love is not proud.

Pride is essentially idolatry.  Pride sticks it's chest out and struts it's stuff.  It has that air that says, "I sure am awesome.  Check me out.  Bow to my superior qualities."  It is the same air that Satan had about him when he said "I am going to ascend and exalt myself above the throne of God.  I will be like God."  When we take pride, we put ourselves in the precarious place of exalting ourselves above the Lord.  For Lucifer, it resulted in being cast down out of the presence of the Lord.  Pride comes before a fall.  Pride is destructive.

Love is not rude.

Love is positive and glorifying. People who love do not push their way around.  They do not talk over people.  They do not intentionally interrupt as if the things they are saying are more important than what someone else is saying.  We all know what rudeness is like.

Love is not self-seeking.

To put it another way, love is looking out for others.  Love esteems others higher than self.

Love is not easily angered.

Love understands.  When people do not live up to what we think is the way it should be, we get angry.  Love understands and does not get angry easily when that happens.

Love keeps no record of wrongs.

Love forgives.  Love is not historical.  Love makes it possible to overcome past hurts and not have a list of things we continually regurgitate and chew on over and over again. Love does not harbor ill feelings.