Love never fails

Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. - 1 Corinthians 13.8-10

Everything ends one day. Nothing lasts forever. All good things must come to an end.

Normally all those things are true.

But there is an exception.

Love will never, ever fail.

There are times when my preaching will fail. My best attempts at ministry are going to fail. Programmes will fail. People are going to fail. People I respect are going to fail me. I am going to fail.

But at the end of the day one things endures forever.

Love is incapable of failure. It seems like we would be wise enough to do more of the one thing that is not going to fail.

  

Andrew Peterson words it so well in his 'After the Last Tear Falls' on the album 'Love and Thunder'

And in the end, the end is

Oceans and oceans

Of love and love again

We'll see how the tears that have fallen

Were caught in the palms

Of the Giver of love and the Lover of all

And we'll look back on these tears as old tales

'Cause after the last tear falls

There is love

God, help me to love.