Two weeks ago, I shared on the importance of faith and last week I shared about hope. 1st Corinthians 13:13 says “now abideth faith, hope and love but the greatest of these is Love”. What is this Love that’s greater than faith and hope? For starters, it’s the very nature (Character) of God. 1 John 4:8 says “whoever does not love does not know God because God is love.” 1st Corinthians 13 is often fondly referred to as the love chapter because it goes into detail about what love really is.
1st Corinthians 13
“If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”
If we do the above, then we truly love as God does and exhibit the true nature of God as His Children. Choose to walk in love today regardless because even your faith can’t work without love. Galatians 5: 6 tells us this!