Tuesday, February 14, 2017

Love Never Fails

Love never fails, but it is essential that you keep it flowing. Don’t let life bleed you dry.

February’s Awakening, Day 14

Love never claims, it ever gives; love never suffers, never resents, never revenges itself. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction.

 —Mahatma Gandhi

Joy is love exalted; peace is love in repose; long-suffering is love enduring; gentleness is love in society; goodness is love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love in school; and temperance is love in training.

 —D. L. Moody



Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

1 Corinthians 13:4–8a NIV



This is agape, the vertical love between God and mankind and the horizontal love between our brothers and sisters of humanity. This is the ideal love, the true love—that by which the Father sent His one and only Son to be our saving grace through His sacrifice on the Cross. True love binds all our noble characteristics together and allows them to work in a concerted unison. Love is the ingredient that works within and throughout every aspect of our thoughts, words, actions, and emotions to bring clarity, balance, and temperance to our entire human existence. Love also helps to keep all those not so noble characteristics that we possess, in restraint. Love gives us stability and equilibrium to make appropriate choices throughout this treacherous journey of life. It is like the life-giving blood within us, ever flowing, renewing, and restoring, and without love, just like our blood, we would soon perish and die.

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