1 Corinthians 14:1

It is love then. Love is the "best of all," even greater than faith and hope! The Greek paints a picture of "hunters in the chase." "Strive for love with every means in your power!!!" Yet love does not replace the spiritual gifts. Set your hearts. Striving for love does not mean forgetting everything else. But love opens the true way to everything else! As Paul said in 1 Corinthians 12:31: "Set your hearts, then, on the more important gifts." The gift of speaking God's message. Because we use "prophecy" to mean "predicting the future," it is not the best word of translation. To prophesy is to speak God's message by inspiration.