Ask anyone who has experienced a major economic crisis in their life and they will tell you that love got them through it. You can lose everything you own, give up everything that you enjoy, and so long as you have love you will endure it.
Love is completely different from lust. Lust is a growing feeling that drives us from the inside, so does love. Lust however, focuses on us and our feelings and seldom looks to the other person or outside of ourselves. When love is present it is completely unselfish. This kind of love does go against our natural human inclinations and against our basic composition. But, God made you in His image and He is love.
1 Corinthians 13:6-8 "Love does not delight in evil but rejoices in the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails, But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away."
I love first of all the fact that Paul uses always in his descriptions of love. Always leaves no room for error, no chance at a let down. True love whether in a relationship, for your parents, your children or others will follow the word always.
Paul goes on to show us that all other natural emotions, and all other things that we possess can be taken away from us, and even drained from us: but not love.
Love will never die, it will never be taken away from you. You can lose your knowledge, all your possessions but love will always be so long as you have a personal relationship with God. He is love, therefore the relationship with Him will always be based on love.
So enjoy love, and find comfort in the fact that it will never die.
Thanks for reading and have a great day.
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