Love That Lasts

We've reached the end of this month on loving others and forgiveness — and Paul sums it all up in four words: love never fails.

What fails? Gifts pass away. Tongues cease. The knowledge we have today will look partial once eternity arrives. But love — the love of 1 Corinthians 13, the kind that bears, believes, hopes, endures, keeps no record of wrongs, seeks not its own — that love never fails.

This isn't romanticism. It's a promise. The love that comes from God, that passes through you, that reaches your neighbor — that love carries the weight of eternity.

Throughout this month, you were invited to forgive — maybe old things, maybe recent ones. To bear with patience. To honor others. To carry burdens together. To make peace. To love without keeping score. To be merciful.

None of that is small. All of it builds something that lasts.

The love you chose to practice this month — even when it was hard, even when the feeling didn't come first, even when it cost you something — that love doesn't disappear. It stays. It grows. It transforms.

And it is of God. What is of God never fails.