"Soul Training" Exercise: Lectio Divina
1 Corinthians 13:4-8
Always trusts
Always perseveres
Love always perseveres. Love always perseveres. Love always perseveres. Love always perseveres.
God brought a few things to my mind as I prayed and thought over these words. The first one is that God's love for us always perseveres. There is nothing as Paul said that can separate us from the love of God through Christ Jesus. The fact that "always" is the word used makes it kind of hard to wrap my head around. Always is 100 percent. It's not 90 percent, or like the claims of anti-bacterial soaps 99.9 percent, it is 100 percent all the time, never taking a break, never quitting, never almost making it, it is guaranteed 100 percent, always.
God's love always perseveres; it is both humbling to know that God loves me and His love for me will always be there even when I screw up, and at the same time completely freeing and open knowing that God's love for me isn't dependent upon what I do. I don't have to earn it.
The next thing that came into my head concerning this phrase is that of married love. That when Audrey and I took our vows on November 26th, 2005 that phrase love always perseveres took it's roots in our marriage. The ups and downs of life together, the hardships that come our way, the things that love has already persevered through and the things that it will have to persevere through. It brings joy to know that because of God's always persevering love for Audrey and I, that our love for each other can always persevere through anything thrown our way in life.
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