“If I speak with the tongues of mankind and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give away all my possessions to charity, and if I surrender my body so that I may glory, but do not have love, it does me no good.” (1 Corinthians 13:1–3 NAS20)
Love is the most important quality we can possess. Without love, we are nothing. Let the magnitude of this truth sink in for a moment. You could be the most spiritually gifted person the world has ever seen, but without love you are nothing. You could be a person of great knowledge, but without love, all your knowledge amounts to nothing. You can be a person of great faith, generosity, and service, but without love, none of these things mean anything to God.
Without love we have nothing, but with love we have everything. It is when we walk in love that we truly begin to know who God is. It is when we walk in love that we begin to take on the nature of our God. It is when we walk in love that we fulfill everything that God has commanded in the Law and the Prophets. When Jesus was questioned about the greatest commandment in the law, He replied, “‘YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND’. This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF’. Upon these two commandments hang the whole Law and the Prophets.” (Matthew 22:36–40 NAS20) Do you see the supremacy of love? It is both the first and the second greatest command in the Law. Everything God has said hangs upon love.
Brethren, let us walk in love! This is the most important thing we can learn to do. This is something we should devote ourselves to, because without love we are nothing, but with love we are becoming everything that God wants us to be.
—Scott Colvin
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