The Greatest Is Love

1 Cor 13:13 tells us that as a Christian we need incorporate faith, hope and love in our lives but it end by telling us that the greatest of these three is love. We are not talking about earthly carnal love but about the God kind of love referred to as agape as described in 1 Cor 13:4-8. Jesus commands us in John 13:34 that we are to love one another with the same love he has shown us and add in John 14:21 that we are to show our love for him and God the father by keeping this command. Jesus also tells us in John 15:14 that keeping his commandment to love one another with agape love elevates us to the level of intimacy of a friend with God and himself. Our job as Christians is to bring healing to a world filled with darkness and hurt. Gal 5:22 tells us that the fruit of the Spirit is agape love and John adds that the world will know that we are Christians by the love we show to each other. In order to walk in agape love we must put on the nature of God and change are carnal behaviors to his, we must not only love others as we would want them to love us but we must love them as Jesus has loved us.