Faith, Hope, And Love, But The Greatest Of These Is Love
Love Is An Action And A Choice
1 CORINTHIANS 13:13
“And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
”I Corinthians 13:13 NKJV
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Three things will last forever; faith, hope, and love; and the greatest of these is love.
As in the morally corrupt Corinth, love has become a mixed-up term with little meaning. Many people are still confused about love. Love is the greatest of all human qualities and comes from God Himself.
Love is more than words or a feeling, it is an action, and actions speaks louder than words.
“Love has been perfected among us in this: that we may have boldness in the day of judgment; because as He is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love. We love Him because He first loved us.”
I John 4:17-19 NKJV
Love is a choice and involves unconditional selfless service to others with no hidden agendas nor expectations of anything in return.
Fear is the opposite of faith like hot is the opposite of cold. Together, God’s love and faith remove all fear, for “faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.”
Hebrews 11:1 NKJV
Faith is the foundation and content of God’s message. Neither our money, nor status, nor good deeds can purchase our place with God. Neither can our sin, past, present, or future steal our salvation; “that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame.” For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. For “whoever calls on the name of the LORD shall be saved.””
Romans 10:9-13 NKJV
Hope is the attitude and the focus, while love is action. When faith and hope come together in one’s life, he or she comes to recognise, experience, and understands God’s love, and therefore becomes free to love others as God loves us.
Paul tells us, “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
I Corinthians 13:1-7 NKJV
Again I tell you, ““Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, And whose hope is the LORD. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, Which spreads out its roots by the river, And will not fear when heat comes; But its leaf will be green, And will not be anxious in the year of drought, Nor will cease from yielding fruit.”
Jeremiah 17:7-8 NKJV
All glory to God forever and ever! Amen.
