Love:

It’s worthless to be doing anything, to give my time to team, to give my income to team, to give my whole life for the Kingdom of God if I do it without love. There’s no point in understanding New Testament Greek, in the purest of exegesis and practical application, in the most sound of theology if I neglect love. If my worship is inspiring and my disciples multiplying, without love I might as well leave it all.

Who is love? She is my pattern of life. “This Love of which I speak is slow to lose patience - she looks for a way of being constructive. She is not possessive: she is neither anxious to impress nor does she cherish inflated ideas of her own importance.
Love has good manners and does not pursue selfish advantage. She is not touchy. She does not keep account of evil or gloat over the wickedness of other people. On the contrary, She is glad with all good men when truth prevails.
Love knows no limit to her endurance, no end to her trust, no fading of her hope; she can outlast anything. She is, in fact, the one thing that still stands when all else has fallen.”
I can stop trying to know everything, predict everything, and control everything. Everything here is unfinished, and will remain so until the consummation of God’s Kingdom.
Being childish, I think and act and behave like a child; no more of this! I am a woman, and must be rid of these childish things, they’re not fitting for my life as daughter of God. For the moment it’s all a bit blurry – reality that is. I can’t see it yet, but I will! At that time it will be splendid and dazzling in it’s perfection. I will see myself, my deepest soul, and the truth of God as easily as I see my face in the mirror – just how God sees me!
There are three things in life that are worth holding to; faith, hope and love. Without a doubt, the most prized of all is love.

The section in quotation marks is from JB Phillips Translation of 1 Corinthians 13. I have replaced “it” with “she” for the purpose of demonstrating to myself that I can actually, with God’s Spirit become this! When love is what I am, not what I do, it is no longer a result of ambition, or a vehicle to achieve success. Love will be my hero, my mentor, my tutor. The Spirit of Love, living in me can do this.

**This is a creative piece that I wrote for Christian Discipleship Assesment 1. It's challenged me.