Song of Solomon 2:4 He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.

Today is Saint Valentine’s Day and it is meant to celebrate the love that couples have for one another. Imagine if you will sitting at the Lord’s banquet table and over your head is His banner signifying what you mean to Him. Love.

A banner is a visual declaration of what you mean to the Master of the banquet. Your Master has declared you are love. This declaration is an honor but it is also a responsibility. He has called you out as an example of what love looks like. Everyone is to look at you to see how love acts.

I am humbled by that banner. Eyes fall upon me and I beg them to look away and look upon the one who declared His love towards me. All that He has done in declaration of His love towards me is beyond my ability to repay. Please, O please, look not on me, but rather see my Love, my Savior Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 13:10 But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.

Paul encouraged us in chapter twelve to cherish the better gifts. He didn’t say which ones were better and I think he left that up to the imagination of the reader. Perhaps the better gift is the one the Lord has bestowed upon you. Perhaps it is a gift you see in others that you do not possess. How you feel about that is really up to you. Then Paul ends the chapter with these encouraging words, “Let me show you a better way.” Then he extols the virtue of charity, Agape, God’s indwelling love.

I skipped over all that Paul said and settled upon verse ten and sat in awesome wonder about all the wondrous things I do know because of the Lord and saw it disappear as if it were another vain imagination. Knowledge was included in those things which we are given in part which will be done away with when perfection comes.

I cannot imagine what I cannot imagine. It is vanity to think that I can. Spiritual gifts as wonderful and powerful but they will no long be required. The gifts of service are a blessing beyond belief but they will no longer be required. I can understand that because they are meant to help the needy, the weak, the babes in Christ, even the mature. We all cherish those gifts as being from God because we are in Christ. But they will not be required when all are perfected. What can I do without knowledge and understanding? I cannot understand that.

It is beyond my imagination.

Hebrews 12:26,27,29 Whose voice then shook the earth: but now he hath promised, saying, Yet once more I shake not the earth only, but also heaven. And this word, Yet once more, signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. For our God is a consuming fire.

What do I have that cannot be shaken?