Love is the greatest force

I think love is the greatest force there is in the world. There's nothing more powerful than love.

Jude 1:21

Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

I think love is the greatest force there is in the world. There's nothing more powerful than love. If I had the choice tonight, and was a sinner, and was standing here before God, and He have said, "Now, boy, I'm going to give you all nine spiritual gifts. I'm going to let you prophesy, give you the spirit of prophecy. I'm going to make you a mighty preacher, give you the word of wisdom and understanding. I'm going to give you the gift to speak in tongues and to interpret. I'm going to give you a gift of healing that you'll have great faith for the sick. And I'm going to do all these things for you. I'll give you all that, or I won't let you have any of those things, but let you have real love in your heart." I'd say, "God give me love." That's right. "For where there is tongues, they shall cease. Where there's a prophecy it will fail. Where there's knowledge, it'll vanish. But where there is love, it will endure forever. That's what drove the heart of God to send Christ to the earth. Here some time ago, a little story was told me of a mother. And a young girl had been away to college. And on the road back, she brought a young girl home with her. And the girl was one of that little modern ''snicklefritz'', we call it, you know, just kind of a little feisty. So her mother was out to meet her. And so when the young lady looked around and seen the… Oh, the mother, the young lady that was with her said, “Oh, who’s that old hag?” ’Cause, she was all scarred up. And the young lady that had been away, she was ashamed to say it was her mother because her little self-styled friend had said she looked like a hag. So when they had to finally leave the train, why, the—the mother run up to the daughter and said, “Oh, darling, I’m so glad to see you.” And the girl turned her back and walked away, ’cause she was ashamed of her ugly-looking mother in the sight, in the presence of her little girlfriend from college. And happened to be the conductor that was standing there knew the case. He caught that young girl and turned her around. He said, “Mary, what makes you act like that? What’s happened to you since you’ve been away?” He said, to the girl, that was with her. Said, “No, doubt but what you’re looking at that ugly mother of hers.” She said, “I’ve seen…”

The conductor said, “I’ve seen the day when she was twice as pretty as her daughter will ever be.” But said, “I happened to live in the neighborhood, and this girl was a baby upstairs; her mother was in the backyard washing. And all of a sudden, the fire engines run up, and come to find out the house was on fire. And it was hot. And there was no possible chance for the baby to be saved.

And this mother ran through those blazes, a beautiful woman, and run through the blazes, and grabbed the baby, and jerked her clothes from her body, and wrapped the baby’s face up in it, and rushed through those blazes, back, and that’s what made her ugly, it tore the meat from her face, and that’s what her… She’s all bent over, where the fire had drawed her down.” And said, “And the reason she’s… You’re pretty; that’s why she was made ugly, so you could be pretty. And then you’re ashamed of her

By William Branham