Mystery of Love

"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. 1 Corinthians 13:1-13 NKJV

How can we describe love with the human languages? Even if some may describe love with million words, we cannot understand what love is. It's God's mystery which must be revealed by Him. No one can grasp what love truly is until he receives a Person, Jesus Christ. It's because He is love, the Son of God. The Scripture says that God is love. He is always giving out love. God cannot but love his children even through painful disciplines and tribulations.

In God, there is no second thought. He cannot flip over. He is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He is just and loving forevermore. He doesn't have no variation or shadow of turning (James 1:17b) Love is God behaving. The mystery of love is manifested in Jesus Christ the Lord. Even angles in the heavenly places were eyeballed at His death on the cross. That's how God manifested His divine love for all race. When we obey His commandment, "Love one another," the world shall be eyeballed by the act of love.

When we act on loving one another, it is not us who do love one another but Jesus Christ within us does, because only God can love justly and righteously. So, loving one another is possible only when we are equipped with the right power of our Lord Jesus Christ. No man can love one another with his might and will. It fails without exception. Jesus Christ is the One who both commands us to love another and provides the power to do so. He is not only leading us to follow Him, but also pouring out the dynamics to do so. Since it is impossible for God to lie, He will continually be the power source for us to love one another forever.