The Supremacy of Love, Part II

The sermon series “All in the Family” continued with the second part of 1 Corinthians 13. We were humbled by the reality of God’s love for us demonstrated in Jesus’ life, death, burial, and resurrection. We were reminded of the absolute necessity of love being the driving force for all we do. We began to understand the magnitude of real love, a divine love, and wrestle with the fact we are lacking in it. However, we are called to love in this way because God has loved us in this capacity. We are to be the proclaimers of the Gospel by means of living out a divine love before and in the midst of the people.

The trouble is we also see that any action devoid of love is simply an action of the flesh and of no value in God’s economy. Yet, to love in a divine manner requires an action in which we demonstrate it. At times the dilemma feels like a riddle. “Which came first, the chicken or the egg?” “Which came first, the love or the action?” Paul is instructing us to move away from childish thinking in that we need the emotion of love to be able to love. Divine love is an act which places the recipients need above the givers own well-being. We do not need to “feel” the love to love our neighbor, our spouse, our children, etc. God loved us when we did not even care about God. Are you ready to love others God’s way?