Stifled Love

“bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” 1 Corinthians 13:7

Facing a cocky, skeptical, jeering crowd of students on a major college campus, Josh McDowell, brought about a complete, silent standstill to all conversation and heckling with one statement. “There are two things every one of you are afraid of. You are afraid you will never be loved; and secondly, you are afraid you’ll never be able to express real love to anybody else.” Think about it!

Those two issues loom before us like giant walls to be scaled. There are those who seem to have it all together, but the truth of the matter is we all stumble and fail at some point. Even though we know the Lord, we don’t always love like the Lord loves us.

You see, our human experiences with conditional and finite love are such poor representations of the real thing - God’s love. God’s love “bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all thing.” And above all that - “Love never fails.”

Afraid you will never be loved - afraid you’ll never be able to express love...