Love never fails, wouldn't you agree? At least at the onset of relationships and marriages, this is what we hold on to, what drives us, what we believe. But why is it that with the initial stages of giddiness, thrill and passion, love is worn out. At what point in marriage do we stop loving and no longer seeing it as unfailing? If love was sincere and true as we claim it is to be in the beginning and even vow to the law and to God, how do marriages end up being destroyed? Why the increase in annulments and separations and divorces rampant? Because marriage is seen as a contract that the moment a loophole is found, we can bail. It is no longer seen to be a covenant but an exercise of agreement and a negotiating arena. Love does not have an expiration date. No loopholes, no escape clause, no technicality. Love is unfailing, it keeps pouring even when running on empty, persisting even when rejected. Love that isn't grounded on solid rock--God's Word--is sure to crumble when shaken, burst to flame when subjected to heat. Love endures, no matter the tide, no matter the wind, no matter the heat. Like Jesus' love for you and me, for sinners--love is unfailing, unconditional, unwavering, unending.
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Lord, thank You that Your love for me endures forever. In this day and age where people have become faithless, worldly and unbelieving, love has been redefined to a thousand things. Love has become selfish, fickle and skeptical. A few months back, I was one of those skeptics and was a cynic, thinking that love is always motivated by selfishness and never, ever unconditional. I was a perfect contradiction, longing for a beautiful love story while I was unwittingly ruining my own. I was a skeptic, refusing to believe that love never fails. Why would I, when I was surrounded by failed relationships left and right? I was inconsistent and greedy, believing that I was giving my all but in reality, I was the one always taking and wanting without delivery of what I had to give back. The world has redefined my views of love. I thought that love should be given and received in the exact amount. When it wasn't, it was a perfect license to bail. Thank You Father, that You have altered my jaded-way of thinking about love. I am slowly but surely understanding that true love is relentless like Yours even when mistreated and rejected. Thank You for the reminder that true love never bails out, does not walk away and give up at all, the way You did for me. Your love for me has no expiration. It is unchanging like Your Word. Teach me this kind of ceaseless love, Lord. Strip away any skepticism in my heart and replace it with belief. Keep a firm grip of my hands as I walk through the years of my marriage and hold me steady when the world shakes me and attempts to reverse my faith in it. Set my heart away from greed and inconsistencies, that I may love without holding back, unselfishly, persistently and unceasingly. I offer my heart to You. Convict me to learn to choose to love anyway. Always and forever. Because LOVE NEVER FAILS. Amen.
Love never fails. -- 1 Corinthians 13:8
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Lord, thank You that Your love for me endures forever. In this day and age where people have become faithless, worldly and unbelieving, love has been redefined to a thousand things. Love has become selfish, fickle and skeptical. A few months back, I was one of those skeptics and was a cynic, thinking that love is always motivated by selfishness and never, ever unconditional. I was a perfect contradiction, longing for a beautiful love story while I was unwittingly ruining my own. I was a skeptic, refusing to believe that love never fails. Why would I, when I was surrounded by failed relationships left and right? I was inconsistent and greedy, believing that I was giving my all but in reality, I was the one always taking and wanting without delivery of what I had to give back. The world has redefined my views of love. I thought that love should be given and received in the exact amount. When it wasn't, it was a perfect license to bail. Thank You Father, that You have altered my jaded-way of thinking about love. I am slowly but surely understanding that true love is relentless like Yours even when mistreated and rejected. Thank You for the reminder that true love never bails out, does not walk away and give up at all, the way You did for me. Your love for me has no expiration. It is unchanging like Your Word. Teach me this kind of ceaseless love, Lord. Strip away any skepticism in my heart and replace it with belief. Keep a firm grip of my hands as I walk through the years of my marriage and hold me steady when the world shakes me and attempts to reverse my faith in it. Set my heart away from greed and inconsistencies, that I may love without holding back, unselfishly, persistently and unceasingly. I offer my heart to You. Convict me to learn to choose to love anyway. Always and forever. Because LOVE NEVER FAILS. Amen.
Love never fails. -- 1 Corinthians 13:8