This is the last installment of the What Is Love? series I have been blogging about. If you have not read the other 3 parts please do so before reading on. If you already have let’s go…
Love is…
E = Enduring
Psalm 136:1
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good. His love endures forever.
God’s love is everlasting and endures forever. The love that we should have for God and show to others should be a reflection of an enduring love as well. Love knows no end. True love bonds. It secures. As a pastor I do many weddings and one of my favorite parts is to talk about the rings. Traditionally we exchange rings in marriage, why? Well, first of all it is a sign that someone’s love belongs to us and our love belongs to them. It is an outward sign to others to show that we are taken and that we belong to another. The symbolism of the ring is that it is round to show it has no end, it goes on forever. The shape of a ring is eternal, it has no end point, it last forever and ever. The ring is a sign of our unending love for another. Love truly endures all things. The mountains the valleys and all in between. Love is a life long marathon, not a short sprint. We have to pace ourselves for the long haul and hang in there through the good, the bad, and the ugly. True love is like hunger, it never goes away. There is a constant renewal of energy and action. But if we starve love it begins to die. When we feed love we keep the fire going and going.
Many married couples are facing extreme love outages because they are not fanning the flame of love. They have stopped feeding the love hunger, therefore their marriage is in malnutrition and is dying. We have a responsibility to keep feeding love so that it endures all things. Not just in a marriage, but our relationship with God and others. Love endures and when you endure love will grow stronger. What are you doing to fan the flame of love in your life?
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