True Love Never Ends

1 Corinthians 13:7-8a ESV
“Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.”

Love should be the driving force to have a family. A husband and a wife love each other and vow to spend the rest of their lives together. They decide to have a family, build dreams together, bring up children to love and receive love. That is the plan but not every home works that way.

In some family’s, people fall out of love, people leave and create voids in lives and hearts. Those are scars that last a lifetime. Then in other families, the intent is love, but some never feel love, but they stick together because that is what is expected.

I grew up in a Christian home where, even though no one said they loved each other, you knew they did because they did most of the right things. My mother and father took us to church, taught us to read the Bible, taught us how to pray. They fed us, clothed us, kept us in a warm and safe environment. They taught us how to work and how to live as good citizens. We lived the Christian life at home. I will take that as love.

I tell my wife every day that I love her, and usually a few times a day. I hug her and kiss her because I love her. She tells me that she loves me as well. I know it hasn’t always been easy to love me but there is a standard involved; “Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.”

We learn the best love when we accept, receive, and give love. The greatest love we will ever know is how much God loves us. He is patient, forgiving and loving. His “love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. (His) Love never ends.”

Prayer:
Father, the only reason I know how to love is because of the love I see from You, In You, and through You. I love because you first loved me with an everlasting love. Thank You Father, Amen!