Title: What I Need Most is Love
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What you need most is to love (1 Corinthians 13:1-13)
The greatest thing for us who live the life of faith, who believe in Jesus, is to love the challenges and challenges. : “You believe in Jesus, but don’t you love that too?” As it is, love is the most important check in faith. This is something to keep in mind when we first believed and now.
What we have to admit is that the happy people now are those who love and are loved. 1 Corinthians 13 is the chapter of love. Please believe that these words are meant to give us happiness. Through expository words, along with the gifts in chapter 12, Paul teaches the heart of God in chapter 13. That there has to be love. I hope you can think of love, restore love, practice love, and share love in today's Word.
In the text, Paul first reminds us that everything is incomplete without love. Chapter 12 deals with the gifts each of us should have as we unite in the Holy Spirit. Wisdom, knowledge, faith, healing, miracles, prophecy, discernment of spirits, tongues, and other gifts such as interpretation. But Paul is saying that gifts without love can be dangerous. By the way, Paul is not saying that gifts are useless. But it is said that a gift without love is nothing to me, and it is of no use to me. Look at verses 1-3. “Without love ...” Without love, there is no benefit to me, because without love a gift cannot be lasting. That there is no benefit to me without love, service without love is bound to be formal. If there is no love, there is no benefit, and a heart without love cannot impress others. To say that there is no benefit to me without love means that I live without experiencing love or giving. Moreover, the fact that it is not really beneficial to the saints because of lack of love is that they cannot live righteously in the presence of God.
All meaning of life, in which we live earnestly, meaningfully and rewardingly, has to do with love. Why do you work hard on your own? because you love me!
Why do you work so hard for your children? Because I love my children!
Why do we worship, serve, pray, and sing praises at church? Because we love God, because we thank Jesus!
Would you like to live with formal love? Or am I going to live my life fulfilling a love that is beneficial to others and that is pleasing to God? Of course, we must become saints who live with true love. Therefore, love and whether I really love and live is the most important issue.
Then think of yourself. Have you really lived your life with true love? Are you living and sharing love now? Let's see the text to check. This is what the text says about loving and living. In verses 4-7, “Love is gentle and … endures.”
As I meditated on these words, I asked myself a question with the heart of the Lord. ‘Are you living with patience? no! Are you really meek? no! Are you living without speculation? no! Was there no pride? There was.’ I realized that everything was something I didn’t do right. “
I have no love! No, at least you are a pastor who still needs love!”
By the way, what I am grateful for is that just by meditating on and thinking about love like this, I realize that love is created in my heart. That's why you look more lovable. Don't you need love now too? Isn't it time to live and love? Shouldn't it be solved with love?
Looking at the text, verse 9 and below say that we have lived a life that is now partially known, a life as dim as a mirror. It is said that “at that time,” you will know face to face as if you are dealing with it, and then you will throw away childish words, understandings, and thoughts, and become a mature person who knows complete things. There was a realization that these words gave. Ladies and gentlemen, take a look at whether the justice we are claiming is not that the things I judge are right like a child. It is “now”, and it is the thought of a child. That's when I even claimed and put forward that I was right! In the sight of God, there is nothing to show off or boast about.
But when I stand before the Lord, only one thing overflows to me, and that is the love of God. When you walk with Jesus, there is something that shines brightly, and it is love. By living in the grace of the Holy Spirit and fully knowing, it is to love and live. If you live in the hope of the kingdom of heaven, you will know that what you need now is love.
When I look at myself in front of the cross during this Lenten season, what I still confess is self-reflection, whether I am actually living that love properly. I have lived my life lovingly, but I have not been able to love properly. I want to live with love, but the question is, will I be able to live by practicing love properly? That is why there are people who have rather heavy hearts in front of messages about love.
However, as I read the Word, I came to understand the Word of grace.
It appears at the end of Chapter 12. “Look for the greater gift” in verse 31 What do you think this greater gift is? That's right. It is a gift of love. Love is precious, and we have to give love and live with love, but he says that love is not something we do with our own strength, not through our own efforts, but “a gift from God.” James chapter 1 verses 16 and 17. “Do not be deceived, my beloved brethren, for every good gift and every perfect gift comes down from above, from the Father of lights.”
That's right. As with all gifts, the gifts we need, those we need, come from above. It is God-given. A little love I can do. I love children. I also love animals. But I can never do the things that are difficult to love, to love someone I hate, to love a broken couple, to love someone who is like an enemy. I don't know how to do it again, but I can't keep going. But that love is a gift. However, the verse at the end of chapter 12 tells us to “desire” “a greater gift” for this.
13:13 says that the greatest and greatest is love.
And say, “Look for it.” It is to confess and pursue this kind of love and love, only if you have the gift of love. Your love is strong. Only with love can we truly overcome. What you need right now is love.
So how can you love like this? Verse 13 says, “Faith, hope, and love, the greatest of these is love.” Love isn't the only thing that matters. Faith, hope, and love must all exist, and the most important thing among them is that we have to hold on to love in faith and love in hope. That is, our faith must be in harmony with faith, hope, and love.
I have to have faith in the love of Jesus who forgave me by saving me when I was a sinner. In the hope of being a citizen of the kingdom of heaven in that eternal kingdom, we must be free from greed and attachment to this earth. And even now, there must be a practice of love that love is the best. There is a saying. “I will meet everyone I hate and my enemies in heaven.” What do you think of these words? If you say, “Then you won’t go to heaven,” you are the most foolish person. Because when we meet in heaven, "I don't remember any of the reasons why I became an enemy. Even if it is remembered, “No, is that something worthy of an enemy? Hehe, ho ho, I'm sorry, I love you, thank you" will come out by itself. Let's greet each other while looking at the grace of heaven. "Hallelujah!" (syncopation)