Love Is The Greatest

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

Author Dave Peterson wrote: “Once, while on vacation, on our way to church, Terri and I got into a disagreement over something. When I felt I was losing, to make my point, I stopped the car and got out. We were on a country road. It was drizzling.

Unfortunately, I had no idea what I was going to do next. She and our kids looked at me wondering, “What’s he doing out there?” Lacking an alternative, I got back in. We put the kids in the nursery and sat down in the sanctuary.

The pastor began to read, ‘Our text this morning is from 1 Corinthians 13, “Love is patient, love is kind, love is not jealous or boastful or arrogant or rude. Love does not insist on its own way. It is not irritable or resentful. It does not rejoice in the wrong but rejoices in the right. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.”‘ And just then, I felt Terri’s hand reach over and lay itself gently on my hand. In that moment, whatever had been wrong between us was healed. Her willingness to die to herself, breathed new life into our marriage.

This is one of the Bible’s most powerful and profound truths—’Love does not insist on its own way.’”

The most excellent way of living is to love the Lord and to love others.

“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