Love, Pass it Around
For the Month of February, let us talk about this crazy thing called love. Back in the first century, the first missionary Paul wrote this: "Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance." 1 Corinthians 13:7 and "Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love." 1 Corinthians 13:13 God gives us many gifts, as Paul wrote about in his first letter to the Corinthians. In chapter 13, he says three of these last forever -- faith, hope and the greatest among the three, love. Love which we now in turn use to be able to love God back and to love others, yes particularly the unlovable or those you cannot really bring to love, even if you try. Indeed the apostle John wrote in his first letter that God loved us first, and that we in turn love because we were loved first. So when we hear people say, 'God is love', or that 'all we need is love' or 'love