Love never fails is an excerpt from one of my favorite bible passages.
(1 Corinthians 13:1-13)
If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but too not have love, I am nothing.
Skipping to verse 8 which says love never fails. Where there are prophecies they will cease, where there are tongues, they will be stilled, where there is knowledge, it will pass away.
LOVE. NEVER. FAILS.
It's so perfect to be sharing about this subject just after sharing about being fearless. Its so perfect to be sharing about this subject two weeks before Valentines Day.
Let's discuss one aspect of being fearless. Try loving someone. Talk about having to be strong and courageous. Try being a parent to someone and having to love then enough to release them to God. In this life having control is an illusion. We dont have control and we dont get to manage the unexpected events life throws our way. I honestly dont know how people make it without God. He is the one who keeps us together through it all.
Valentines Day is a beautiful holiday. I love it. I love all the holidays actually. I appreciate some more than others but I believe we must celebrate life and love every chance we get all year long. Valentines is fun but highly overrated of course. The whole romance market brings in billions and while it's important to show those you love with acts of love, these are just gestures. True love runs so much deeper and if one does not know God then one cannot truly know love.
I went through a large part of my life thinking that finding love and getting married would somehow fix and large void for me. Putting the weight of my happiness on another person which is so unfair when instead I should have focused on becoming the partner I wished to have. True love is about serving one another. Two souls that live to out bless one another are two happy souls indeed.
Relationships where there is only arguments and complaints and misery are built on selfishness and pride. True love should be where resolutions are made and agreements are set so that everyone wins. Too many times individuals are in it to win it with a need to be right even at the cost of the other persons happiness or even mental health and this is not love.
Sometimes the person you n are trying to love has unconventional ideas or ways of receiving love and we have to get out of our own mindset, away from our own internal image of what perfect love looks like and love the way the other person needs. We need to stop expecting others to fit our own agenda and for this WE NEED GOD. He I the one and only creator of love and he has to be center for love to work. If he is not center then selfishness is and this can never work for love.
Another factor is unhealed souls. Our complete inner healing will not be finished until our time on earth Is done. We see others through the filter of our own limited understanding if we don't have Jesus to show us the deeper meaning, the unseens and the bigger plan. Loving others takes great courage.
Loving others means becoming vulnerable in putting our heart out there with imperfect humans that could carelessly break it. God says to love one another so we are called to obedience in this area. Talk about being called to fearless trust. HE IS FAITHFUL and it's WORTH THE CALLING. LOVE IS WORTH IT.
Here is the caveat. We must allow God to heal us inwardly. We must allow him to open us to the truth. We must allow him to show us how to love ourself. That may sound selfish but if we have see the value in ourself, understanding his intricate worth within so that we are able to truly love his way.
I have had deep encounters with God. I have also been a hot disobedient mess at times. I am so GRATEFUL he didnt lose patience or give up on me. I have given up on me at times but he never has. I am beyond thankful for his relentless love. I have had prayer training. I understand spiritual warfare. I have been through the seasons of demon behind every bush. The demonic is real but I will not live my life in fear because JESUS. Every knee shall bow and every tongue confess. JESUS IS LORD.
He told me one day. You want to know warfare? LOVE IS THE GREATEST WEAPON. LOVE ALWAYS WINS. That seemed so much to wrap my head around at the time and when we think we fully understand the mystery we find out we really don't know much. I do believe with all my heart. Love always wins. It actually requires supernatural strength to lay down our ego and walk in love but walking in love brings us into greater freedom. God knows what he is doing and his word is given to us so that we can be prosperous in our Journey.
LOVE. NEVER. FAILS. Trust his process. It will not always look like you are winning. It may not always look like love is winning. Keep the faith. Keep your eyes on Jesus. He is committed to your victory. Greater love IS the PRIZE.
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