There comes a time when we choose to love. No matter how hard it is, we still choose to love.
Perhaps at first, it is simply an emotion.
All those things we crave, passion, desire, excitement, and that feeling of falling. And although those things are wonderful, they aren’t enough to sustain love. Not on their own.
There comes a time when we’re required to make a choice. We have to choose it. No matter how hard it becomes. No matter how much is demanded of us, we have to choose love. Because that’s how forgiveness, respect, trust, compromise, and grace, the things that truly sustain it, are planted and grow.
The enduring message in 1 Corinthians 13 is that as Christians, we‘re called to love one another as Christ loves us. Jesus’s love for us is everlasting, merciful, humble, and kind. Above all, it is not self-serving. Christ exemplified this by assuming the sins of mankind and suffering death on a cross.
For love to endure, it cannot remain on the surface; it has to go deeper.
Too many of us give up when the surface becomes murky and the waves start to rise. We head for the shore, letting go too soon. Long before we’ve had a chance to discover that unconditional love lives and breathes in the depths, not in the shallows.
Every time we choose love, we move closer to fulfilling Christ’s purpose for us, not just in our marriages, but in all our relationships. Loving others, no matter the circumstance, whether we think they’re deserving or not, is exactly the way God loves us. How can we do any less?
When I say I love you, it’s not the words,
but our connection that anchors them.
The life we’ve breathed into them.
The miracles shared because of them.
These words hold the entirety of us.
The certainty of everything we are
and the promise of everything we’ve yet be.
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