Love

"Three things will last forever- Faith, Hope, and Love- and the greatest of these is Love."
-1 Corinthians 13:13

Love:
Today I am going to focus on Love, the last and most important of the three. As the verse says Love is the greatest of all the three things that will last forever. But why? Why is Love the greatest?
Love is one of the most complicated, if the most complicated, things in this world. First of all love is not a feeling, it's a choice. That is one of the reasons why a lot of marriages are failing today. The decide that they don't love each other any more. But you can't be ruled by your emotion or you will be a miserable and selfish person.

Love is so great. It is the most powerful and dangerous emotion, and decision. Love can cause us to do some very strange things. Like, act all funny, change ourselves, hurting someone else, killing someone else, or even letting ourselves be killed for that person. Like what Jesus did.
It says in John 3: 16 "For God so loved the world that he gave His one and only Son, that whosoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life." God loved us so much that he sent His only son to die for us. Have you evaluated yourself lately? You are not worthy! That lady at the grocery that He died for, she's not worthy! Your dad? Not worthy! Me, I'm not worthy! No one in this whole world is worthy of what Jesus did. He shed his own blood on the cross for me, for you, for everyone.

God sent His only son. If you had only one son, your only child, could you send him to be killed and blasphemed for the world? For people who don't even believe in him? I know that if it was me, if I had a son, that I couldn't do it. No one could!
But when God sent His Son He wasn't thinking of Himself, He was thinking about you, me, your hair-stylist, the babysitter. He loved us so much  that He didn't think about it would affect Him or His Son.
But when God sent His son to die Jesus had a choice. When Jesus was here on earth he could have chosen to live a different way than He did. But He didn't. He loved is so much that He allowed Himself to be beaten, to be cut down with words, to be hung on a cross, to die.

All because of Love. He did all of this because of Love. Their are no words to describe what He did, except Love. So the next time that someone asks you why you believe what you believe, why Jesus did all that He did, Love. Just say Love. That is the best answer, the best description to describe why He did what He did.
I know that this is kind of a kiddy song, but it so depicts His love.