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THE COMPLETENESS OF GOD’S LOVE( 8-13)

8-10 Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled. 11 When I was an infant at my mother’s breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good. 12 We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!

We seek to do mighty miracles, thinking that we must be more favored. But in reality –love is the

ultimate expression of who God is – selfless, other-focused, always giving, love.

Paul says – when you start to see who God really is, what being a man really is about, you see that it

isn’t about you after all – its about what God does through others to edify, for others.

13 But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.

These three ideas were favorites of Paul – the “essentials” to life. Faith in Jesus as God and

Savior, hope of the good things He is doing in our lives and is going to do – but love is the

greatest – it is the driving force for everything we do and are becoming.

Everything we accomplish in life will one day pass away. But the one thing that will always

endure through eternity, is the Love of God.

(1Jo_4:8, 1Jo_4:16).

Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love….And so we know and rely on

the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.

When you know God you will know His love. When you are filled with His love, then the Holy spirit gives you the power to edify others, enrich others and to endure and never give up on your family, marriage or church.

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