The Results of Not Spending Time in Intimacy with the Lord of Love

What happens when we don't spend time alone with the Lord?
This is scarey:
You become impatient, have little or no endurance.
You become unkind, harsh, not gentle, nor meek.
Because of the lack of love, you become envious, jealous, untrusting and non-assured; you become boastful, conceited - arrogant and inflated with pride; you become rude, won't respect or honor others.
Because of the lack of love, you are not humble and esteeming others better than yourself - You esteem yourself, your work or ministry, your values, ideas, friends and family, better than others.
When you have a lack of love, you have to make yourself look good, you have to always-be-right, out-do, be-on-top or be a know-it-all; you will tear others down, be prejudice, judgmental; you will love the praises of men rather than give praises and encouragement to others.
The lack of love, acts in anger, acts unbecomingly, (temper tantrums- displays self); you insist on your own rights or your own way; for you are seeking to fulfill self, selfish; greedy and unsatisfied, restless, and not contented, complaining; you become manipulating, deceitful, and controlling.
With the lack of love (love that comes from intimacy with God and His word) you become irritable, touchy, fretful, and misunderstand or misinterpret, read-things-into what others say or do; you are not easily approached; you become anxious, fearful and unbelieving, resentful or bitter; you take account of evil done to you; you remember the suffered wrong; you become fault-finding, petty, or peevish.
Because of the lack of love, you justify yourself, blame shift, and deny, make excuses; you condemn others.
With the lack of love, you rejoice when others receive "what's-coming-to-them" or when injustice or unrighteousness is done to others, you are sad when right and truth prevail. You are hurt or upset when others are blessed instead of rejoicing with them; you can't hurt with the hurting, you are full of self-pity, easily offended. You are ever ready to bring up the sins-of-the-past of others, but get upset if your sins are brought up. You cannot bear up under: pressure, criticism, or anything, or everything that comes your way. You are ready to believe the bad or worst of others; and willing to expose the sins of others; you won't give people the benefit-of-the-doubt. You become hopeless, negative; you lose endurance, become weak; your hopes fade. Without love, you find yourself becoming a failure -for love never fails-; you become faithless, full of doubt, joyless, unconfident, unaffectionate, drying up inside; but a burning fire consumes within.
Reverse of 1 Corinthians 13
A loving heart is soft, caring, sensitive to others needs, thinks first of God's desires and then of others, considerate, humble and self-denying, tenderhearted, full of mercy and God's grace, and forgiving, thankful, obedient to God and authority, submissive, truthful, honest and pure, and holy. A heart void of love is hard, uncaring, insensitive to others needs, thinks first and only of self, inconsiderate, prideful and self exalting, and stubborn, unmerciful and can't grasp God's grace, and unforgiving, unthankful, disobedient to God and authority, not submissive, unyielding, untruthful, dishonest, defiled, and unholy.
When we have a lack of love, we seek pleasure (some seek pain) to fill the gap. When we lack in love, we become performance and work oriented instead of relationship minded.

REMEMBER: Selfishness is sin. Spend time in intimacy with God; get to know Him.
Let Him change you; you can't change yourself.

(We reflect what we behold and what or who we spend time with.)

So, we can use our love barometer to let us know if we need more time alone with God; for GOD IS LOVE.