Love Never Fails

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By: Myeshia Brown

This post comes from a place of vulnerability for me and I hope that it blesses and encourages you.  

February, also known as the month of love, tends to put love front row and center in our lives whether we like it or not.  It shows up in store windows filled with red and pink hearts. In commercials about finding “The one.”  In conversations about relationships, marriage, and connection in person or on social media.  And if we’re honest, this month can feel beautiful for some people, and heavy for others.  Some people are celebrating anniversaries.  Some are newly in love.  Some are healing from heartbreak.  Some are waiting.  Some are learning how to love themselves again.

I’ve learned something over the years, and I’m still learning if I’m being real: Not all love we experience as humans is steady.  But God’s love is. “Love never fails…” 1 Corinthians 13:8. This is a promise. 

I used to think love was mostly about how I felt.  If I felt chosen, I felt loved.  If someone showed up consistently, I felt secure. If someone pursued me, that meant I was loved.  And while those things can reflect love, they are still human.  Human love can be inconsistent, misunderstood, mistimed, and incomplete.  God’s love operates outside of human limitation. “But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” Romans 5:8.  This means before we were healed, confident, or whole, He loved us. And not future us or perfect us. Just us.

Sometimes, we measure our worth by how people love us back and February can make that louder because the world celebrates romantic love loudly, but rarely talks about the love that holds you when life is quiet, confusing, or painful. Zephaniah 3:17 says, “The Lord your God is with you…He will take great delight in you…He will rejoice over you with singing.” This is a reminder that God does not love us because He has to. He delights in us, rejoices over us, and is present with us. This isn’t performance-based love. This isn’t temporary or fragile love.This is love that never fails.

If you live long enough, you will experience love that doesn’t last the way you hoped. Friendships shift. People grow apart. Relationships change, and expectations go unmet. If you’re not rooted in something deeper, it can shake how you see yourself. 

And scripture keeps bringing us back to this truth: “Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good. His love endures forever.” Psalm 136:1. And forever means on your best days, your insecure days, and your “I don’t know what I’m doing” days. God’s love is not seasonal.

I think one of the biggest shifts in my life has been learning to live from love and not for it. When you know God’s love doesn’t fail, you stop chasing crumbs. You stop shrinking to be chosen.  You stop confusing attention with love, and you stop overperforming to feel secure.

Now this may not be for everyone, but it is for someone. This month isn’t just about romantic love. Maybe it’s about remembering you’re already loved, chosen, and seen. Not because of who chose you, but because God already did. And His love never fails.