Love conquers all. - Virgil
Sometimes those words sound a little hollow. We aspire to love and to experience the joy and fulfillment that accompany requited love, but in the real world, disillusionment sets in when the best of our efforts to extend love result in a cold, hard, callous wall that stands between us and all the hopes and dreams we'd invested in attaining something good and lovely.
What began as a vehicle that brought us to a point of warm, pleasant, hopeful expectation becomes instead one that dashes our hope and leaves our emotions bruised and broken. So we doubt the veracity of Virgil's assertion...
...unless we apply it from its only completely viable perspective, unless we view it as it is best apprehended. And that is when we come to the awareness that no matter how completely human love can indeed disappoint us, the Lord's love never will.
I Corinthians 13:8-13 says, "Love never fails. Prophecies shall fail...tongues shall cease...knowledge shall vanish away...we see through a glass darkly (we cannot perceive God's love in its totality for our eyes are finite and His love is infinite), but then face-to-face...then shall we know even as we are known. For now abides faith, hope and love—and the greatest of these is love."
May Jesus help us to keep our focus on Him, for when we look at Him, we will not be disappointed in love. May Jesus help us to appropriate the unfathomable love He has for us—even if we don't understand it totally. May Jesus help us to be a reflection of His love to others who may not grasp the magnitude of blessings that real, forgiving, accepting, all-encompassing love can be to a life for time and eternity. And as we reflect Him, may the light of Jesus' truth and love illumine our world and those who live in it. May we always remember, the Lord loves us with a love that will never fail (Jeremiah 31:3).
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