Love Never Ends

There are times in the cycles of our lives that some things get put on the back burner and fail to get done not because we don’t value them but because other things have been deemed more important at this time.

I haven’t blogged or written much in the past couple of weeks only because I chose to focus more time in that hospital calling and getting started in Stephens Ministry training. At least the weekly emails are important to me and I’ll try and keep up on them more regularly.

In worship this week: 1 Corinthians 13 – Love is patient, love is kind … love never ends.

If Love never ends then why do marriages fail? Why do relationships fail? To borrow from Paul’s language structure:

If I were to say I love you each day … if I were to bring flowers every week
But strike you when I am angry … then this is not love. This is not a marriage.

When a relationship is lacking in patience and kindness
When it has become envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. When one partner consistently and forcibly insists on its own way; is irritable or resentful;
When we find ourselves actually rejoicing in wrongdoing, love is gone.

Love never ends, but our ability to act in love is not perfect. Let us come an rededicate ourselves to living in God’s love.