David Jeremiah 17th February 2024 Devotional Message
Read David Jeremiah 16th February 2024 Devotional, Friday Turning Point Devotional Message
TOPIC: The Greatest: Virtue
And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love.
1 Corinthians 13:13
Recommended Reading: 1 Corinthians 13
Every religious and philosophical tradition—both ancient and modern—has a set of virtues it promotes. The list might be formal or informal, but the qualities of life enumerated represent the best of what the tradition promotes to its followers.
The closest Christianity comes to a list of virtues is Paul’s list of the fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Galatians 5:22-23). Christian virtues are distinguished from other lists of virtues by their source: the Holy Spirit as opposed to the human ideas and efforts of man. A shorter list of virtues is found in 1 Corinthians 13:13: faith, hope, and love. Paul makes the point that the greatest of these virtues is love, which he also named first in the list of the fruit of the Spirit. In 1 Corinthians 13:1-3, Paul explains that no noble or spiritual act—spiritual power, great faith, sacrificial generosity—is worthwhile if love is missing. That is consistent with 1 John 4:8, 16: “God is love.”
Since love is the greatest virtue, ask God to fill you with His love in all that you do today.
Every virtue known to man is found in Jesus.
Michael Green
Read-Thru-the-Bible: Numbers 25 – 29
Turning Point is the broadcast ministry of Dr. David Jeremiah and was founded in 1982 to deliver the unchanging Word of God to an ever-changing world.
READ MORE TOPICS: OPEN HEAVENS, OUR DAILY BREAD, IN TOUCH, SEEDS OF DESTINY, STREAMS OF JOY, JOEL OSTEEN, MOUNTAIN TOP LIFE, DCLM DAILY MANNA, UCB WORD FOR TODAY