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1 Corinthians 13: 7 (The Amplified)

"... Love is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening]."


I don't know what it's like to believe the best in every person, because sometimes I really am cynical. "Love believes all things..." Sometimes I find myself wondering about this "believing all things" situation. If God is love, and we can basically replace the word "love" in this chapter every time it appears with the Name of "God," then is it true that God really believes all things? Does He really really, knowing full well humanity's track record, believe the best in every person? Does He believe in us like a doting Father would a young child with big dreams and grandiose ideas? He does. He believes the best in me, the best in you. He takes you and your heart seriously. He believes in things. And I have always loved that about Him. I don't take people seriously sometimes, but there is a loving Father and friend in Jesus who listens to the hearts of His children, and believes in their hearts.

Through this precious love (that we can now walk in because of the cross) we can believe in all things, and believe in the human heart. Our hope will never fail because of this undying love to which we cling. And with this relentless and sturdy hope we (sometimes with white knuckles) endure to the end. Because of this passionate and extravagant love, the trials do not make us weaker, but stronger through the miracle of His Holy Spirit in us. You will endure to the end.

Ask the Father to let His Holy Spirit reveal more and more and more of this incredible, powerful, ridiculous unashamed LOVE. Ask for it to be more real to you today than it has ever been. Love = Believe+ Hope+ Endure.