My youngest son, 13, was sitting next to me as I was writing this morning. When he read Paul’s passage, he was quick to point out, “Love does fail.”
“What do you mean?”, I inquired.
“Well, what about divorce?”, he responded.
He was speaking from our experience as a family of divorce. I gave him a kiss on the top of his head and said, “You’re a smart kid,” then paused before continuing, “I think divorce happens because we don’t know how to love, not because love fails.”
John writes, “God is love” (I John 4:8), and God does not fail. Jesus says He is in the Father, and we are in Jesus (John 15:4; John 17:21). Therefore, are we not all in the Father – in love?
Learning to love is a lifelong lesson. May this be our quest.