Love Never Fails
Hello Bride of Christ,
I live in a space between wanting to spend time with my children and wanting to be alone. Maybe you can relate? The pull between spending time on something for yourself and something for someone else...
Committing to one is never pleasant or fulfilling. For when I am with my child I struggle with the noise, chaos, and level of energy needed to stay engaged. Also all the physical touch... the child trying to climb into my lap, but instead hits me with a knuckle sandwich right in the thigh, or the child that tries to snuggle during a movie, but really wants me to scratch their back throughout the entire film!
You may read this and say, "Well that is what it means to be a mom!" or "Wow she really doesn't like being a mom!"
But that is not it... I take and embrace all the feelings, truths, and discomforts that come along with this mom journey to better relate to my God. To think God calls me His child (John 1:12). Does my neediness ever wear Him down? Does He ever want to retreat and be alone? How does He encourage me to continue to seek Him, ask for Him, knock for Him?
God's Identity
If you were wondering, God is never weary with our neediness, but instead encourages us all throughout scripture to seek after Him. Jesus, God who became man, did need alone time for scripture takes account of His retreats to the wilderness to spend time alone with God (40 days in the wilderness). Jesus came down to this world to show us how to balance it all in this flesh. But God, Father God, is not like us, for He is not fleshly. 1 John 4:8 tells who God is, "...God is love."
God doesn't only have love for us, He is love. And what is love?
"Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails." (1 Corinthians 13: 4-8)
Another way to read this knowing God is love:
"God suffers long and is kind; God does not envy; God does not parade himself, God is not puffed up; God does not behave rudely, God does not seek its own, God is not provoked, God thinks no evil; God does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; God bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. God never fails."
He Never Fails
Notice you are not the substitute for love. God is the only one that can make it happen. He is the only one with an unfailing track record. So when you are feeling overwhelmed, torn between two or more places / circumstances, turn back to God. God has you cause He loves you and He is love.
Breathe with me and say "Thank you God for being love. Thank you that You never fail. Help me to accept You today. Amen."
