Check Your Temp!

1 Corinthians 13:4-7  Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

In 1868, a German physician named Carl Reinhold August Wunderlich, using data from 25,000 patients, concluded that 98.6 degrees is the body’s normal "physiologic point," and that fever begins at 100.4 degrees.

So whether you use a thermometer in your mouth, or armpit (yuck), or the other thermometer that, um, goes south, your temperature should be 98.6

What Dr. Wunderlich did for body temperature I want to do for spiritual temperature. Do you want to know how you are doing in your Christian walk? Let’s take our Spiritual Temperature. How do we do that? We see how we are loving. We are commanded to love others. In 1 John 3:11 we find “This is the message you have heard from the beginning: We should love one another.”

So, to take your spiritual temp, read today’s passage and substitute your name for the word love. For example, “Jerry is patient and kind…” I really wish patient came later in the list. I hate striking out so early in the list!

This simple test will show you how well you are loving others. You will find some strengths and maybe some problem areas for you, too. This is an easy test to take, but one that is hard to pass! Recheck your temp every now and then, and see where you are better or worse, and make adjustments. Go on, check your temperature!

Today’s Readings:  Judges 4,5; Psalm 39,41; 1 Corinthians 13