"Love Never Fails"

~~~ 1Cor 12:31-13: 13 ~~~ Psalm 33 ~~~ Luke 7: 31-35 ~~~

 

 

If you never read another word from the Bible;

 Paul's letter to the Corinthians has everything you need.

 

"Love is patient, love is kind.
It is not jealous, love is not pompous,
it is not inflated, it is not rude,
it does not seek its own interests,
it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury,
it does not rejoice over wrongdoing
but rejoices with the truth.
It bears all things, believes all things,
hopes all things, endures all things."
"Love never fails."

 

If you can learn to really love your neighbor as yourself,

imagine what this world would be like.

If we truly knew how to love, imagine what our families would look like.

Why do we struggle so much over this four letter word

LOVE?

What is it about love that frightens us?

Why do we claim to love some but not others?

Is it okay to only love those who agree with you?

Do we really have to love those who have wronged us?

Love is not summed up on a Valentine's card.

Love is not cupids shooting little arrows.

Real love requires work.

The words above from Paul are challenging.

Paul does not say, pick one of these phrases and you are good to go.

No, Paul says this whole letter is the definition of Love.

 

 

"...At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror,
but then face to face.
At present I know partially;
then I shall know fully, as I am fully known.
So faith, hope, love remain, these three;
but the greatest of these is love."

 

What you see in a mirror can be distorted.

Things can appear farther away.

A mirror cannot take the place of a face to face encounter.

 

In our present human state of existence we only have partial knowledge.

We are limited, we can only see things through our human eyes.

We can only love with our human heart.

 

Paul in his wisdom lays out for us the ideal picture of love.

Paul is also just like us he is human.

Paul understands that when we come before the Lord we will

'know fully' as we are now 'fully known' by God.

 

So we should continue to strive to love better.

Be not discouraged in love;

for "Love never fails."