Love Is The Greatest

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“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.” – 1 Corinthians 13:13

Once upon a time, in a small Jewish town, there lived a very devoted rabbi who was known to spend hours praying and studying the word. He usually disappears every Friday morning for several hours. His devoted disciples boast that during those hours their rabbi goes up to heaven and talks to God. After some years, a stranger moved into the town, and he was sceptical about all of the stories about the rabbi, so he decided to check things out. He then hid and watched. The Rabbi gets up in the morning, says his prayers, and then dresses in peasant clothes, grabs an axe, goes off into the woods, and cuts some firewood, which he hauls to a shack on the outskirts of the town. There an old woman and her sick son live. He leaves them the wood, enough for a week, and then sneaks back home.

Having observed the rabbi’s actions, the newcomer stayed on in the village and also became his disciple. And whenever he heard the villagers say, ‘On Friday mornings our rabbi ascends all the way to heaven,’ the newcomer will quietly add, ‘If not higher.’

The most excellent way of living is to love the Lord and to love others. Thank Jesus that He loves you so much and you too, choose to love Him and others with all of your heart.

“Love is an image of God and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature, which beams full of all goodness.” – Martin Luther

“For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is faith expressing itself through love.” – Galatians 5:6