We blow it in life, and the relationship is over. It is a given assumption that either party has the option of walking away at any time when the offense record grows too fast, too long, or too unprecedented…even “too annoying.” Our culture has instinctively built escape hatches into every relationship. For marriage, there’s divorce; for work, a neatly typed resignation letter; for dating, the classic “I don’t have peace…” Even my hairspray assures me, “No, really. You spray it on your hair. You know, sooner or later you’re going to have to start trusting again.” Experience has taught us to build walls, to build escape hatches, to keep ourselves safe, because sooner or later everyone walks away.
Why should God be any different?
Love. So hard to define that beautiful little word. Is it a feeling that lasts for several years and then fizzles away? magnetic chemistry between two people? roses and chocolate on Valentine’s Day? It’s time to take it back to the original definition: [Love] suffereth long…beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. [Love] never faileth.(I Corinthians 13:4-8) For God so loved the world…so loved me…so loved us. Paul says that for this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ…that [we], being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge.(Ephesians 3:14, 17-19) No escape hatch. No point of no return. Love that never fails.
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