This week, we have seen that real, godly love moves us to patience and kindness and prevents us from envying others. Today, let’s note that love “does not boast and is not arrogant.”
Boasting about one’s accomplishments while envying the accomplishments of others comes naturally. But once again, this contradicts real love. As we see throughout First Corinthians 13, real love helps us focus on others. Pride and arrogance, however, happen when we focus on ourselves. An ironic thing happens when we are proud and boastful. Remember that Paul said, “Without love, we are nothing.” Thus, if boasting is the opposite of love, and without love, we are nothing, then when we boast, we boast about nothing! When we are proud, we are proud without reason! Arrogance and boasting do not highlight our accomplishments; they highlight our emptiness and nothingness. If you want to be something, be humble. If you want to really accomplish something, pursue humility and godly love.