Love NEVER Fails…
1 Corinthians 13:8 Love never fails…
NEVER!
Mmmmmmm… really!????… Do you believe this? Do I?…
Do I set the foundations of my life (the testimony of my belief) upon it, claiming it as TRUTH, claiming it as OBJECTIVE TRUTH… a law of the universe that is not changed by a person’s actions and/or random events seemingly contrary to the evidence?
Do I testify in the Court of Reality that Love never fails?
Does my life produce the evidence that, “IT IS A FACT, JACK!”?
There is a meme going around that there is no such thing as “Objective Truth”.
I might agree that reality can be manipulated to look a desired way (like putting lipstick on a pig). BUT… does look determine truth, or does truth exist regardless of the desire(s) surrounding it?
It certainly would be convenient if I could determine that I, and everything about me, was indeed right – perfect in every way – and in need of no one to counsel me otherwise. It certainly would be the favorable position, to be the judge of all other opinion/beliefs, especially those that dare to argue with mine.
It certainly would be a great life… IF I was in control… IF I knew THE TRUTH (always and in everything)… IF I DO RIGHT ALL THE TIME…
If there is no such thing as objective truth – only subjective (subject to the whims of the speaker/believer) truth – we would have a world (a reality) that is built upon a non-sustaining foundation of constant change and therefore chaos.
If we were able to change facts/truth into what we believe, or want to believe them to be, we would continually be at the mercy of the nature and properties of matter and energy… and the consequences – both immediate and longterm.
In other words – we would also have to be able to change/control physics or be in constant turmoil, dealing with it’s unimaginative/uncompromising character.
Love never fails!
Love… never… fails…
Just as objective/subjective truth has the boundary of existence, Love either exists or it doesn’t. Our definition of love can include all kinds of imagination and thus requirements, BUT does it exist without us or without meeting our expectations? The boundaries of Love never fails requires knowing the dimensions of what TRUE LOVE is.
Love is… HANDLING WITH CARE… patient, kind, is not jealous;
Love is… NOT ABOUT ME… does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered,
Love is… ABOUT ALL THAT IS RIGHT… does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. (1 Corinthians 13:4-7)
Love is… Philippians 4:8… whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise… Love is these things.
Love… never fails!
If the success or failure of love is dependent upon the giver and/or receiver then NEVER would never happen, except (and only except) with the PERFECT Giver/Receiver. The boundaries of Love never fails requires knowing the land mass of TRUE LOVE and the care and maintenance needed from it’s inhabitants.
1 John 4:15-18 Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abides in him, and he in God. We have come to know and have believed the love which God has for us. God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. By this, love is perfected with us, so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment; because as He is, so also are we in this world. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.
We, on the other hand, are IMPERFECT both in our giving and receiving. Few of us KNOW HOW to love well, much less without the perfection of doing so unconditionally. We somehow believe one must “earn” love or “deserve” love. Impossible to be sure!
Even with imperfect lovers…miraculously love exists. And where love exists… failure does not. Failure (the fact that something did not succeed) only happens when there is no opportunity for the happening! Therefore, objective failure – can only be assessed – when there is no life…
Or when… as some of us look forward to – in the life after life… where love never fails — God is love — perfect love casts out fear!
THIS is my foundation… the basis for the testimony of my life… like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid a foundation on the rock; the pillars of the OBJECTIVE TRUTH equals God and His Word!… and when a flood occurred, the torrent burst against that house and could not shake it, because it had been well built.
If peace and joy and happiness solely depends on my own view (heaven forbid) or on your view (OhMyGod) of REAL LOVE then we live in the scariest of horror films!… like a man who built a house on the ground without any foundation; and the torrent burst against it and immediately it collapsed, and the ruin of that house was great.” (Luke 6:46-49)
If I am not yet perfected (and I am NOT)… or if my/our subjective version (the imaginings of a mind set on ME, MYSELF & I) fails, so what? THANK GOD it only fails in our “imagination”!
Love NEVER fails!!!!!!!!
**All Scripture quoted comes from the “Bible Gateway” app and is the NASB version of the Bible