Tuesday, August 14, 2007

Love Without Stopping

Love Without Stopping
"Keep your eyes open, hold tight to your convictions, give it all you've got, be resolute, and love without stopping." ~~1 Corinthians 16:12-14 The Message

It's the last part of that verse which caused me to pause, really pause and ponder. I had to stop and ask myself the question "has my love stopped?" Most of us would probably say we never ever stop loving those we say we love...at least we wouldn't say it out loud.
Come on, get real honest with me, all of us have times when we don't feel loving, lovely or loved for that matter. We get tired of the same old, same old, and in our fatigue we don't give it all we've got; we don't resolve to set our faces like flint and love whether we feel like it or not.
Life has or will have difficult relational moments for all of us. It's in those times, the times when we close our eyes and loosen our hold on our convictions ~the things that God wants to matter most to us~ that our love can stop. Why... because, by our lonesome selves love is not possible. We forget to keep the main thing, the main thing.
Let's all of us, pause today and confess our lack of resolve and our sin if necessary and let Love Himself fill us with His Perfect Love. And then whether we feel it or not, let's reopen our eyes, and giving it our all, love without stopping.
Stephanie

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