Love!

February 14, 2022 Monday Message

1 Corinthians 13:13 NLT: “Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love.”

Happy Valentine's Day, the day we celebrate love!

Love is the greatest because it's an attribute of God. Faith and hope are not part of God’s character and personality. God does not have faith in the way we have faith, because He never has to 'trust' outside of Himself. God does not have hope the way we have hope, because He knows all things and is in complete control. But God is love, and will always be love.

I love my wife, I love my country, I love my God - but they're different kinds of love. In our language, we only have one word. But in his Epistle to the Corinthians, Paul specified the word 'agape,' putting other's needs above our own. He's saying that loving the Lord is more important than anything else.

If you first love the Lord, loving others will become second nature!

Pastor Norton Lawellin

Jesus in the City Fellowship, 3249 30th Ave. S., Minneapolis, MN 55406