... love that never quits.....

" Love passionately bears with others for as long as patience is needed, love doesn't demand others to be like itself, but is so focused on the needs of others that it bends over backwards to become what others need it to be, Love is not ambitious, self-centered or so consumed with itself that it never thinks of the needs or desires others possess..."

recognize this?

it's from 1 Corinthians 13... and we all know it like this:

"Love is patient, love is kind, it does not envy.."

got this "extended" version from a Devotional book called "Sparkling Gems from the Greek" by Rick Renner...

extended because it tries to include all that  the original greek words really stand for..........

in 1 Corinthians Paul calls us to love with an agape love, the highest level of love because it is selfless, it never quits, is more concerned about others, it loves and never gives up..
it is the love that God has for His children and why He even went that far as to send His only Son to die on the cross for us.......

Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves,  not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.

 In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

 Who, being in very nature God,

    did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;

 rather, he made himself nothing

    by taking the very nature[b] of a servant,

    being made in human likeness.

 And being found in appearance as a man,

    he humbled himself

    by becoming obedient to death—

        even death on a cross!

Philippians 2:3-8

this kind of love is available to us, because once we died to sin we were filled with the Holy Spirit, this is what Romans 5: 2-5 tells us:

And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;  perseverance, character; and character, hope.  And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

God has already poured out His agape love to us... as we ask Him to love this way we will love more and more and more and we will never quit......

when going through the worst rejection and heartache in my marriage, God manifested this agape love in me through loving my husband more than I ever had before... I never gave up until he walked away for good...

I know it happens and we can do it.... how blessed am I to know this before entering into a new relationship, and how blessed am I that the one that God might have for me knows it too.....

All praises be to GOD!!!!!