Love

If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate. If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing. If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

We have three things to do to lead us forwards: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. But the most important of these three is love.

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On a side note; I just finished reading Redeeming Love for the second time. I brings me to me knees knowing that God loves me as much as He does. I don't deserve it in the least bit, yet there He is. All I can ask for is that if someone ever comes into my life for good, that I can follow the bolded portion above. There is nothing greater.