“…And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.” (I Corinthians 13:13)
How does love fit into the trio of lasting qualities Paul writes of? The Apostle John answered the question for us when he wrote: “God is love and he who dwells in love dwells in God and God dwells in him.” (I John 4:16)
When we dwell in the love Paul prescribed in I Corinthians 13, we dwell in God and God dwells in us.
By application, this means when we go where the hurting people are, as God’s love is passing through us and addressing their pain, we are touching God and God is touching us. Since the agape love passing through us is God, we are dwelling in God and God is dwelling in us while God’s love is passing through us.
Jesus gave us a perspective of love when He exhorted the apostles to look up before they look on the fields that are ripe for harvest. (John 4:35) Jesus was focusing on two perspectives we must master as His authentic disciples. Before we look around and relate to the people who intersect our lives every day, we need to look up, and then look at them. We should see them through the same love lenses God uses when God sees them.
If we do, we will never see anyone we cannot love.
Dick Woodward, from A Prescription for Love
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