Almost everyone has read the Bible’s chapter of love – 1
Corinthians 13. Undoubtedly we all have
been to a wedding where we heard “love is patient and kind.” My favorite part of this chapter is the
ending. Verse 13:
“So now faith, hope, and love abide, these
three; but the greatest of these is love.”
The greatest of these is love. The greatest of all things that we can hold
on to is love.
This got me thinking tonight.
What does love look like in my life?
How am I living out love in the way described in 1 Corinthians 13? Is it the greatest thing in my life?
Take a moment today to read the love chapter and think
through how “the greatest of these” looks in your life.
1 Corinthians 13
If I
speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong
or a clanging cymbal. 2 And if I have prophetic powers,
and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove
mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away all
I have, and if I
deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love,
I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient
and kind; love does not envy or
boast; it is
not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on
its own way; it is
not irritable or resentful; 6 it does not rejoice
at wrongdoing, but rejoices
with the truth. 7 Love bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures
all things.
8 Love never ends.
As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for
knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part
and we prophesy in part, 10 but when the perfect
comes, the partial will pass away.11 When I was a child,
I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I
became a man, I gave up childish ways. 12 For now we see in a
mirror dimly, but then
face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully
known.
13 So now faith,
hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
-Pastor Tom
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