Trust Without Wavering
1 Corinthians 13:7 Love never gives up on people. It never stops trusting, never loses hope, and never quits.
Have you ever had someone in your life – perhaps a member of your extended family or someone with whom you’ve been friends for a long time – and you get to the point where you’ve just had enough?
I think we’ve all had people like that in our lives: That one family member who’s blotted their copy book once too often. That’s it! He’s not coming over for Christmas ever again! Or that woman you’ve been friends with for years, but she’s just become more and more difficult to get along as time’s gone by. So, at some point (perhaps without even thinking about it) you’ve cut her loose. She’s just not worth it!
How do we get to that point? How is it that we can take a once important relationship and just throw in the trash?
Perhaps that feels a bit blunt to you today. Perhaps it touches a raw nerve. But then perhaps, just perhaps, that raw nerve needs some attention today.
So, if you have a relationship skeleton like that in your closet, so to speak, here’s a Scripture that may well be a word in due season for you:
1 Corinthians 13:7 Love never gives up on people. It never stops trusting, never loses hope, and never quits.
Isn’t it true that you and I have been more trouble than we’re worth in the lives of those around us? Isn’t it true that we’ve gone through rough patches in our lives, when we haven’t been all that pleasant to be around?
And yet, still … those other people hung in there for us.
Love never gives up on people. It never stops trusting, never loses hope, and never quits.
That’s God’s Word. Fresh … for you … today.
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