Thursday August 14th, 2025
« Meanwhile these three remain: faith, hope, and love; and the greatest of these is love »
1 If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.
2 If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing.
3 If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would have gained nothing.
4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud
5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.
6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.
7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
8 Prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will become useless. But love will last forever!
9 Now our knowledge is partial and incomplete, and even the gift of prophecy reveals only part of the whole picture!
10 But when the time of perfection comes, these partial things will become useless.
11 When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things.
12 Now we see things imperfectly, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.
13 Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.
- The Bible takes the subject of love so seriously that it is equated with the sum of all the commandments of God, Matthew 22:36-40.
The Bible goes further to say that love is the fulfilment of the law Romans 13:10.
The use of the word ‘Law’ in the Bible, is usually a reference to all the commandments and statutes recorded in the Old Testament.
Now, the reality that God equates love to the whole of the Old Testament Bible is serious food for thought.
The Bible in 1 Corinthians 13:1-2NKJV says
« 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 »
The passage above speaks clearly about the importance of love and how children of God should rate it on the scale of spirituality.
- Here, God compared some special spiritual gifts of uncommon value to love.
Speaking in the tongues of men and angels means the ability to speak in heavenly tongues as well as interpreting it in the language of men.
The interpretation of tongues has always been a rare gift that is highly sought after in the body of Christ, yet anyone with this gift without having love is described as sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal – viewed by God as a mere noisemaker.
Furthermore, the Bible says if one should have the gift of prophecy, understand all mysteries and have all knowledge, with enough faith to do great miracles, without love, such a person would amount to nothing in the eyes of God.
Love is the golden rule by which whatever gifts we exhibit and whatever services we offer to God are measured.
Therefore, love is the ultimate commandment. Romans 13:10GNT says,
« If you love others, you will never do them wrong; to love, then, is to obey the whole Law »
The service that pleases God is one from the heart, rendered in love.
God is love.
If you are born again, you have the capacity to manifest the agape love.
It is a compulsory virtue in Christianity.
Food for thought – To what extent does love manifest in your life and ministry ?
Author – Bishop Enoch Adejare Adeboye; General Overseer of the RCCG
Posted by Naomie Joseph
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