The Love That Remains

1 Corinthians 13:8 says that love never fails. People change. Some relationships grow strained, and death ends conversations we wish could continue. This fragility can make us love with fear or try to control the people closest to us.

The love that comes from God gives us a different way to live. Romans 8:38-39 says that nothing can separate us from the love revealed in Christ. That assurance stays with us through grief and helps the heart keep loving even though this life comes to an end. In Jesus, we learn that love is worth giving when we cannot know how much time remains.

This truth also reaches the resentment we keep alive. We may delay an apology because we are waiting for the right moment. At times, we hold back affection as though people should already know what we feel.

There may be someone whose presence you have stopped valuing. The love of Christ invites you to face that honestly. You may need to begin a conversation. Admitting your fault can also change the way you treat someone who has become too familiar.

Eternity with God gives greater weight to the present. It helps us recognize the value of each person He has placed near us.

8 ¶ Charity never faileth: but whether [there be] prophecies, they shall fail; whether [there be] tongues, they shall cease; whether [there be] knowledge, it shall vanish away.

38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.