Love Never Fails

April 4

God’s love is beyond our ability to fathom apart from the Holy Spirit’s revelation of His heart to our heart. The best we see of love evidenced in this Vale of Tears where fallen man treads is through a Lillian Trasher or a Mother Teresa. We stand in awe when we see the sacrifices such ones are willing to make in the behalf of their fellow man.

For the most part, the love we see has strings attached. The beautiful young woman is adored until she gains weight or becomes matronly. The successful executive is put on a pedestal until a monetary setback leaves him without financial resources. We like to think we love better than that, but typically, we don’t. Mankind is a selfish lot.

The Bible makes it plain that, “…love never fails” I Corinthians 13:8. How can this scriptural assertion be true if what we see and know of love evidences the contrary? How can love be unfailing when it has so many qualifiers attached to it—like a complicated legal document? I John 4:16, 17 sheds the Lord’s light upon this seeming disparity.


Here it says, “We know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in God, lives in love, and God in him. In this way, our love is made complete…we are like Him.” It isn’t our love that never fails, it’s God’s love! To the degree we allow Him to manifest His love through us, to that measure, our love, His love in us, cannot fail.