Monday, September 29, 2008

These Three.....but the greatest....

In this journey of questions...seeking TRUTH. I find that it is good to start with those who have gone before. The one I am going to focus on this time is Paul, from the Bible. Paul, through his writings shows that he was working through this issue of TRUTH: what are the few things that lay underneath everything?
Paul writes in 1 Corinthians 13 about how Love should be the point behind everything we do, as Christians. It should be a heart things, not a law thing. At the very end of the chapter, Paul writes: "And these three remain: FAITH, HOPE, and LOVE. But the greatest of these is LOVE."
Paul reveals what he feels as the underlying TRUTH. He feels that through these things all of everything else can be understood. But Paul does not leave it just in this life, but the next. With his final sentence calling the greatest LOVE. He has taken it all the way through as these types of TRUTH must be done. By taking the first and last and most extreme situations, we can narrow from a large list of truths into the actual TRUTH. Only TRUTH will hold in every situation. Paul says that FAITH, HOPE, and LOVE are the final three, and when he takes it based on eternity he finds that even FAITH and HOPE are no longer applicable. You see FAITH and HOPE are no longer needed when you are with God in eternity because both of their purposes are already fulfilled with being with God.
I believe that Paul really worked it all the way through. Perhaps, when you test truths to find TRUTH all you end up with is LOVE? For me, I still have a lot more questions that remain unanswered, even if this is TRUTH there is so much further to go....let us continue the journey

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