nothing without love

And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

1 Corinthians 13:2

I am nothing without love.

It does not matter if I spoke every language in earth or in heaven.

If I didn’t have love, I’d be all noise and no substance… just a clang hanging in the air with no meaning.

I am nothing without love.

What would it benefit me to have the deepest insights into the meaning of everything?

To delve the depths of theology or science without love is trivial.

I am nothing without love.

I could have all the wealth possible to gain in this world and then I could just give it all away.

I could donate every organ in my body to sick people, but giving my life away without love is absolutely pointless.

I need love.

I need to be loved by God Who gave His only Son, loving this broken and sinful world AND a broken and sinful me.

I need to be loved by and with those who are transformed by the love of Christ.

I need to be loved by a wife who loves me like the Church love Jesus… if I could just love her like Christ loves us. Love’s beauty lives in that mystery.

I need to love.

I must be patient. I must be kind. I must not envy others. I must not boast in pride. I must lay down my insistence that life always go my way. I must bypass irritations and my tendency toward resentment. I must celebrate the truth over my own perceived gains. 

I need to love by bearing hard things, believing the best when the worst happens, always hoping, committed to enduring through the power of the gospel.

I can be something in that love!