A More Excellent Way

A More Excellent Way
Gena Matthews
"But earnestly desire and zealously cultivate the greatest and best gifts and graces (the higher gifts and the choicest graces).  And yet I will show you a still more excellent way [one that is better by far and the highest of them all - love]."
1Corinthians 12:31 AMP
I am amazed when I think about all the attributes of love the Apostle Paul describes in 1Cor.13.  This being the case, why is the spiritual gift of love the least sought after?  Could it be that we do no appraise love as the greatest gift?  Or maybe we do not have the understanding that when all else has faded away, love will still remain.  In 1Cor 13:8 it says, "Love never fails [never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end].  As for prophecy  (the gift of interpreting the divine will and purpose); it will be fulfilled and pass away; as for tongues, they will be destroyed and cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away [ it will lose its value and be superseded by truth]."
We must remember that "God is love" (1John 4:8b) and we must stay rooted in the main thing.  When we are rooted in love, all the spiritual gifts will be freely demonstrated to bless the body of Christ in the way they were intended.  Not to cause discord or division, but to help us walk together in love.




Stay Focused
and
Blessed.........................
Jan