Speaking in beautiful languages, being the most gifted prophet or most knowledgeable, having a great amount of faith, giving away all that you have, even sacrificing your body...these are all good gifts or good things to glorify the Lord...under one condition: that love is in their midst. Without love, these things are mere rubbish. They only have meaning when they are done in and out of and through love. That love comes from God as God is love.
Love is patient and kind and all of the things you hear at weddings and wonder if you could ever live up to those attributes. We can only exude those attributes through the Lord, who is love. Which is helpful and encouraging considering I can't be any of those things on my own.
We live in the tension of the already and the not yet. But there will be a day when the Lord will come back and it will be perfect. What we live now, the partial, will be nothing in comparison to what is in store, the perfect. I've no idea if this description is or will be correct at all, but I envision a second flood of sorts...where anything not of God is purged and all that is left standing is the Lord and His people. There will be no more need for prophesy because we will be living in full revelation. With the entire heaven and earth worshiping the Lord, rejoicing together, and living in the midst of perfection.
And I think that is what the glimpses of perfection are today on earth...when you are rejoicing and worshiping the Lord, focused on Him, knowing love.
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