The Greatest of All…
When we talk about Love, everybody seems to be excited and thrilled. Love is a very popular subject in every 
conversation or dialogue. But do we exactly know the real meaning of it? How deep is our wisdom about love? Over and over again, we utter the word “love” freely. For example, an employee may say he loves his job, his family, his pay check and even the coffee at starbucks. But most of us cannot directly specify the kind of love that he means. The word was without restrain being used differently by different people at different things. But because love is the most important ingredient in a successful marriage as well as in our walk in Christian faith, we really need to talk about it and find out what it really means.
“Love is related to maturity. Like maturity, it is a process rather than state.” (Richard L. Strauss) To love is to decide. It is a decision. People who are telling that they “fall in love” actually don’t, they grow into it instead. Maturing involves growing from state of giving much and receiving less then to a positive direction of cheerfully giving everything without expecting anything in return.
The relationship between the mother and the baby is best example. Newly born baby must be love or he will die. The baby receives love but he doesn’t have anything to give in return. The baby loves only himself, but as he grows, he becomes more aware of the people around him; his mother, father, brother & sisters and even his play mates. He begins to open his understanding and begin to love the first few people around him in his childhood stage. His growing years continues as he enters the adolescent stage where he begins to idolized people and heroes of his life. He also begins to enter into relationships with his peers (barkada) usually same sex then eventually opening his horizon to the opposite sex. Then soon you will hear from his mouth the utterance “I’m in LOVE”. Is it really love? That is what we are going to discuss next…
Apostle Paul wrote the three great Christian virtues—faith, hope, and love but the greatest of all is LOVE.
March 27th, 2006 at 4:05 am
LOVE According to the BIBLE
by 1 Corinthians 13, New Living Translation
1 Corinthians 13:1-13
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If I could speak in any language in heaven or on earth but didn’t love others, I would only be making meaningless noise like a loud gong or a clanging cymbal.
If I had the gift of prophecy and if I knew all the mysteries of the future and knew everything about everything, but didn’t love others, what good would I be?
And if I had the gift of faith so that I could speak to a mountain and make it move, without love I would be no good to anybody.
If I gave everything I have to the poor and even sacrificed my body, I could boast about it; but if I didn’t love others, I would be of no value whatsoever.
Love is patient and kind.
Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude.
Love does not demand its own way.
Love is not irritable, and it keeps no record of when it has been wronged.
It is never glad about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.
Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.
Love will last forever, but prophecy and speaking in unknown languages and special knowledge will all disappear.
Now we know only a little, and even the gift of prophecy reveals little! But when the end comes, these special gifts will all disappear.
It’s like this: When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child does. But when I grew up, I put away childish things. Now we see things imperfectly as in a poor mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God knows me now.
There are three things that will endure - faith, hope, and love - and the greatest of these is love.
September 24th, 2006 at 6:26 am
Well, dude… you forgot sometin… greatest of all is rhonald… ha ha ha… there is nothing without rhonald… grr…. am i making fun of your postin? gr…. err… na… but it’s kinda funny… just decided to visit friendster… have great time…. adios amigo.