1 Corinthians 13:8
God is Love. We have all heard the expression before. I’m pretty sure I even used it in another IBS. The thing is that for me personally, I am at a place where God has just been showing me and teaching me what Love is by using Him to illustrate it. I feel as if many of my classmates have grasped the basic concept of Love and what it is and how to execute it, especially in regards to God, and are now moving on to how to practically apply it to the people that God has placed in my life.
I’m still in the Remedial Class for Love. It’s a concept that in reality is very new to me. I had a very twisted perspective on Love, hating it only because I could not truly comprehend what it was, or when it was being shown to me, if I even thought it was being shown to me.
So when I read verse 8, you want to know how God has shown it to me?
“ I (God) never fails, but whether (there are) prophecies, they will fail: whether (there are) tongues, they will cease: whether (there is knowledge), it will vanish away” but HE won’t. In going through this weeks IBS, HE has shown me so powerfully who He is. HE is Love, He has patience with me, He is not arrogant, He endures my shenanigans, rejoice when I am walking in truth and will not stand to let me wallow in iniquity. He will never fail.
For me there is Hope in that. I have a new found appreciation for this chapter, not because it suddenly makes me feel all warm and fuzzy necessarily but because it strengthens me by reminding me who my God is. In having an understanding of Him as Love it better helps me understand why His greatest commandment is to Love, because to Love in the biblical sense is to be like HIm, is to try your very hardest to change your heart, actions and perspective to match His. Loving others is just as much a work in you as it to them.
I still have a lot to work on regarding this subject, but He has started to remove the walls and defense system ( which would have given Ft. Knox’s a run for its money!....see what I did there!?) that has stopped me from fully loving for so long and has started to de-frost that part of my heart that I have always felt I’ve had to keep cold to keep safe.
It’s scary, exciting and nerve racking all at the same time, but that’s ok, because you know what?....my God never fails.
Application: I will memorize verse 8, not only mentally but with my heart, in an effort to build my defense against the lies that I've let consume me for far too long.
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