The Greatest Thing in the World. Love.

The Greatest Thing in the World. Love.

Henry Drummond lived over 100 years ago (1851-1897) and has written one (of many) of the most influential books I have read. This man knew how to communicate who God is. Specifically – he understood Love.

“It is a compound thing. It’s like light. As you have seen a man of science take a beam of light and pass it through a crystal prism, as you have seen it come out on the other side of the prism broken up into its component colours – red, and blue, and yellow, and violet, and orange, and all the colours of the rainbow – so Paul (in 1 Cor 13) passes this thing, Love, through the magnificent prism of his inspired intellect, and it comes out on the other side broken up into its elements. And in these few words we have what one might call the Spectrum of Love, the analysis of Love. Will you observe what its elements are? Will you notice that they have common names; that they are virtues which we hear about every day; that they are things which can be practiced by every man in every place in life.”

Henry says the Spectrum of Love has nine ingredients:

Patience – “Love suffereth long.”
Kindness – “And is kind.”
Generosity – “Love envieth not”
Humility – “Love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.”
Courtesy – “Doth not behave itself unseemly.”
Unselfishness – “Seeketh not her own.”
Good Temper – “Is not easily provoked.”
Guilelessness – “Thinketh no evil.”
Sincerity – “Rejoiceth not in inquity, but rejoiceth in truth.”

“These make up the supreme gift, the stature of the perfect man.”

Stay with me over the next several days --- We’ll look at these one ingredient at a time.

I’m going to make it my best recipe this week.