I was reminded this week of something that a great writer once said: “Three things will last forever; faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.” If he’s right, I sometimes wonder if those with seemingly little faith, but out loving and serving people, might have a leg up on those who spent so much time hanging out in the church building “serving the Lord”. If love is greater than faith, quite a few of us may need to change our weekly planners up a bit.
Over on another blog (forgot to make note of where) I saw the above comment and it made me sit up and think hard, especially in the light of the conversation that I shared in my last post.
Love for God and for others were the two most important commands that Jesus gave; love is first within the list of the fruit of the Spirit; and Paul tells us that love is greater than faith and hope. We need to make sure that love is central to our walk as disciples of Jesus and there is no place in our lives for anything that detracts from that love.
It is strange where we find God’s message sometimes.