1 Corinthians 13 is Not About Love
When people think of 1 Corinthians 13 they automatically think of love. I believe that love is not the main topic of that chapter. Before you tune me out and think that I'm a lunatic, just hear me out. I believe that it is ONE of the main topics, but not THE main topic.
The chapter starts out "If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 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. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing." (This is one of my favorite parts of this chapter because it is so beautifully written.) These first three verses are my premises for my argument. You may ask well, if it's not talking about love what is it talking about? I believe it's talking about connecting your actions to your beliefs.
What i mean by this, is the result/your actions are not the problem, it is why you did it. Often times the church teaches that you need to do such and such a thing. (i.e. teach VBS, witness, invite people to church etc.) These things are GREAT! But by just telling us that we need to do [fill in the blank] is not helping. Often we try doing those things but it never works out we don't feel "good" about ourselves, we don't get pleasure in it, or conversation totally flopped and usually it is our parents or someone else that makes us do it. Just like having prophetic powers, and understanding all mysteries and all knowledge... but have not love we are completely nothing. It's the root that matters. If God is not the ALPHA and the OMEGA, the start and the finish, the premise and the result of EVERYTHING than it is nothing. It is complete and absolute rubbish. We are absolute rubbish apart from God. And ultimately that is what everything boils down to that God is IT. He is everything. He is ALL that matters. He is all that is worth living for.
The chapter starts out "If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 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. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing." (This is one of my favorite parts of this chapter because it is so beautifully written.) These first three verses are my premises for my argument. You may ask well, if it's not talking about love what is it talking about? I believe it's talking about connecting your actions to your beliefs.
What i mean by this, is the result/your actions are not the problem, it is why you did it. Often times the church teaches that you need to do such and such a thing. (i.e. teach VBS, witness, invite people to church etc.) These things are GREAT! But by just telling us that we need to do [fill in the blank] is not helping. Often we try doing those things but it never works out we don't feel "good" about ourselves, we don't get pleasure in it, or conversation totally flopped and usually it is our parents or someone else that makes us do it. Just like having prophetic powers, and understanding all mysteries and all knowledge... but have not love we are completely nothing. It's the root that matters. If God is not the ALPHA and the OMEGA, the start and the finish, the premise and the result of EVERYTHING than it is nothing. It is complete and absolute rubbish. We are absolute rubbish apart from God. And ultimately that is what everything boils down to that God is IT. He is everything. He is ALL that matters. He is all that is worth living for.
"For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away." ~1 Corinthians 13:9-10
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