Love Never Stops Loving

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We had friends who walked through international adoption. They felt God calling them to adopt a little boy from Thailand. There were so many hurdles to overcome in that process but every step of the way they kept going because they were certain that God was calling them to go and get this precious little one half a world away.

A few days before they were supposed to leave to receive their little boy, our US government shut down. Their final documents were on a desk somewhere in Washington, DC with no one to call about finding them. My friend called me sobbing that they weren't going to be able to go get him. We had prayed with them all these months for this little one and we weren't giving up! I suggested that she call our state senator at the time, William Roth, and she did. Somehow, some way, those adoption papers were located and expedited to them just hours before they were to board the plane.

1 Corinthians 13:7-8 (TPT) is the final layer of this love chapter passage. The revelation of real love is this: "Love never takes failure as defeat, for it never gives up. Love never stops loving." Our friends worked so hard to get there. Invested so much of their heart before they ever walked into the place where they would meet their little one for the first time. They already loved him but he wasn't so sure about them. In his less than two years he had had a rough time and he resisted them. When I think of love that never stops loving I remember this story and I'm reminded that we have all resisted God's love in our lives at some point. We've pushed back, rejected and even run away from Him. Even though we are faithless and unlovable, God is faithful. He IS love and LOVE never stops loving.

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