“Love never fails
[never fades out or becomes obsolete or comes to an end]. As for prophecy (the
gift of interpreting the divine will and purpose), it will be fulfilled and
pass away; as for tongues, they will be destroyed and cease; as for knowledge,
it will pass away [it will lose its value and be superseded by truth].” –
1 Corinthians 13:8
Love would not depart from her husband. That’s what love would do. Divine
love would not put away his wife. If both husband and wife are walking in the
new commandment of divine love, then their marriage will not fail. Now scolding
and quarreling have caused marriages to fail. But this Jesus-kind of love
never fails!
There has never been an authentic case of two Christians who consistently
walked in love ever going to divorce court. Now I did not say that there has
never been a case where two Christians were divorced. I said, ‘two Christians
who consistently walked in love.’
According to 1 Corinthians 13:8, love never fails. If two Christians are
walking in love, then their marriage will not fail. If both husband and wife
are walking in divine love, neither will even want a divorce. The atmosphere in
their home will be so positive. They won’t want to get out of that kind of
marriage.
If you are having trouble in your marriage and both of you are Christians,
you need to write down 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 from The Amplified Bible on a piece
of paper. Then both of you need to read it every morning before you get up and
every evening before you go to bed. If you will read these verses together and
act on the Word, it won’t be long until your home will be Heaven on earth.
I remember a splendid Christian man I knew quite well. His wife had been
saved, but never filled with the Spirit. Even though she was saved, she didn’t
walk very close with God. She wasn’t consecrated. That’s dangerous. You see, if
you are not dedicated to God and separated from the world, you are sort of like
the little boy who fell out of bed. His mother heard the thud when he hit the
floor and rushed into his room, “What’s the matter?”
The little boy said, “Well, I fell out of bed.”
She said, “How did you fall out of bed?”
“Well,” he said, “I stayed too close to where I got in.”
He was too close to the edge of the bed. Some folks get saved and then
stay too close to where they got in. They eventually fall out of the things of
God.
Well, the wife of the Christian man that I knew did just that. She fell
out of the things of God and took up with another man whom she lived with for
several years. Now she was not divorced from her husband. They hadn’t gotten a
divorce yet. She was just cohabiting with this other man for about seven years.
Evidently, she didn’t want anything to do with her husband. And he had
every right in the world to divorce her and remarry if he wanted to. He even
began to think about it.
But then she contacted him and wanted to get back to God. She realized
that she was a weak person and that without him, she would die and go to hell.
She realized that she needed him.
Well, in regard to natural, human love, he didn’t have any for her. She
just about killed every bit of love that he ever had for her. Natural love is
that way, but divine love never fails. It lives forever.
And so he told her, “From the standpoint of the love of God and from the
standpoint of saving your soul and from the standpoint of keeping you from
going to hell, I’ll take you back.”
So he took her back, even though he didn’t have any affection for her
whatsoever.
He acted on the love of God that was in him. That’s a mighty hard thing to
do-to take someone back after they have wronged you in so many ways. There aren’t
too many people who can do that. There aren’t too many people who respond in
divine love like that.
In the process of time, I was invited into their home, and on a certain
occasion they prepared a meal. I remember that I saw them holding hands. They
were older folks, and once in a while they would slip around behind one another
to get a little hug and kiss. And I could see that when she looked at him, she
just adored him. I could see in her eyes such endearment. She respected him so
much. I saw a closeness between them. Even the natural love was restored. So
she was saved and kept from going to hell and besides that their marriage was totally
restored.
We have to ask ourselves the question: “What would divine love do?”
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