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There is so much wisdom the Apostle Paul shares about love in 1 Corinthians chapter 13. You can know a lot, talk a good talk, and accomplish a lot of stuff - yet, if we don't have love we are nothing.
That is a pretty strong statement; without love we really don't have anything, and without love we are nothing.
The love that Paul is referencing here is the Greek word, Agape, which is translated as;
Charity - brotherly love, affection, good will, love, benevolence.
The root of this word is to love, to love dearly.
This is the love that is selfless, that puts the other person first, that gives with no thought of return or payback.
Paul is addressing the motives of the heart here, and challenging his readers (which includes us) to look to the benefit of the other, and not using a good thing as an opportunity to get ahead.
Focus on Giving to Others
Don't get me wrong here, doing good things is better than doing evil or hurtful things - and we all know the world would be a better place if more loving and good things were done.
The point here is this agape love is focused on giving to others, it is not about the giver.
This chapter includes some powerful descriptions of how this love is expressed
(Taken from 1 Cor 13:4-8 in the New Living Translation);
Love is patient.
Love is not jealous, boastful, or proud.
Love is not rude, it does not demand its own way.
Love is not irritable and keeps no record of being wronged.
Love does not rejoice about injustice.
Love rejoices when the truth wins out .
Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful.
Love endures through every circumstance.
Paul continues informing us how our special knowledge and speaking and prophecy will become useless, but Agape will last forever.
Growing and Maturing
Agape is a mature expression of love. When we were children, we acted and reasoned as children - but when we grew up, we put away the childish things.
He reminds us that we are limited and we are finite - for we all know in part and we prophesy in part. In ourselves we are incomplete - yet there is hope, because in Agape, in Christ, we are able to grow and mature.
In Christ, we are able to get a grasp of the unlimited and infinite nature of God - we are able to see that His ways are higher than our ways (Is 55:8-9), and discover the simple, yet overwhelming power of Agape.
A popular song shares, “what the world needs now is love, sweet love,” or as the Apostle Paul might say,
What the world needs now is Agape, sweet Agape.
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