If I talk using really big and complicated words, or if I am talking in some weird religious "angel-speak", but I don't have love, I'm no different than your cel phone going off in the middle of class-noisy, disruptive, and not at all helpful.
If I prophecy-that is speak God's word about now and the future; if I figured out ALL God's mysteries; if God gave me the ability to know EVERYTHING; if my faith was so strong that I could knock a mountain over with a feather, BUT I don't have love, I am nothing-zero, nada, empty, done.
If I give away everything that I have to help poor people, if I let myself get killed because of what I say I believe in, but I don't have love, I get NOTHING out of it.
To be a loving person is to do the following:
Love is to Put up with all the crap dished out by other people.
Love is Not only acting good toward other people, but thinking good about them too.
Love is Not to be jealous of other people.
Love is Not to go "me first", ever.
Love is Not behaving like some show off, know-it-all.
Love is Not being full of yourself.
Love is Not getting in someone else's face.
Love is Not simply trying to get everything for yourself.
Love is Not easily p****d...er...ticked off.
Love does NOT keep score of the bad things that are done by others.
Love does NOT think it is cool when others do bad things, like dissing other people, like bullying other people, get the picture?
Rather, Love knows that the TRUTH of the thing is cool-no matter the cost.
Love puts up with everything.
Love believes everything.
Love hopes for everything.
Love patiently lives through everything.
THE BOTTOM LINE: Love CAN'T fail-EVER.
Remember the stuff about prophecies? That is going to be eliminated.
Fancy words and weird religious angel-speak? It is going to stop.
Knowledge about everything? It is also going to be eliminated.
Right now, we only have part of the story. So, like, when someone prophecies and such, we only get part of the story.
But when love is made perfect, SNAP, we get the whole story, perfect and complete,
and the part we got right now will be eliminated.
Another way to think about the love being made complete:
When I was a baby,
I talked baby talk-goo goo gah gah
I thought like a baby-in my head-goo goo gah gah
I figured things out like a baby.
But when I grew up, I ditched all the baby-stuff. Does that make sense?
Let me try another one:
When the love is only in part, it is like trying to look into the bathroom mirror by the light of a small candle when the power has gone out, trying to pick out your reflection to do makeup or shave or whatever in the dim light.
BUT, when we get the lights back-when the love is complete-everything is clear.
It is like I said before, right now I only know a part of the story,
but THEN I will know everything just like everything about me is going to be known.
So right now we got three things, faith, hope, and love,
But LOVE is by far the greatest of the three.
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