Why is Love greater than faith...

"Why is Love greater than faith? Because the end is greater than the means. And why is it greater than charity? Because the whole is greater than the part. Love is greater than faith, because the end is greater than the means. What is the use of having faith? It is to connect the soul with God. And what is the object of connecting man with God? That he may become like God. But God is Love. Hence Faith, the means, is in order to Love, the end. Love, therefore, obviously is greater than faith." - Henry Drummond

And oh how we Love such a great and awesome God who cares for our every need and is the beauty of Holiness that flows through every moment of every day. Who loves us enough to work everything that is beautiful into our nature - weaving a tapestry so flawless that our hearts overflow with thankfulness at the perfection that He worketh in is.

Yes, faith works by Love, therefore Love is greater than faith. God is Love, and it is through and by Love - through God and His love and by His workings in us - that we gain faith.

Could it be that faith is the road, love is the destination? You can't get to love without traveling the road of faith, but you won't take the road unless you really want to get to the love.

Dunno, car and road analogies have been worked to death- sorry...

Well, for me, I was first apprehended by His Love. And it has been by His love, and through His love, that faith is slowly being worked in. This by ever increasing difficult situations that He allows me to step into by which I am sustained and held by His love - situations that clearly would have done me in had I not been held by His Love. Which only causes me to love Him more, and at the same time produces more faith - faith that He can, and will carry me through EVERYTHING!

So He (Love) is the first and the last, the beginning and the end - for of Him, and through Him and to Him are all things.

Charity is, or should be, the outpouring of ourselves unto others.

Continuing with the initial quote:
"It (Love) is greater than charity, again, because the whole is greater than a part. Charity is only a little bit of Love, one of the innumerable avenues of Love, and there may even be, and there is, a great deal of charity without Love. It is a very easy thing to toss a copper to a beggar in the street; it is generally an easier thing than not to do it. Yet Love is just as often in the withholding. We purchase relief from the sympathetic feelings roused by the spectacle of misery, at the copper's cost. It is too cheap-- too cheap for us, and often too dear for the beggar. If we really loved him we would either do more for him, or less."

"The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way,
before his works of old." - Proverbs 8:22