Love never fails.

This whole month and last, I have been studying 1 Corinthians 13 with my religion class and tonight I feel like I have had some kind of thought breakthrough. So bear with me while I try to share it.

Here is the verse we were studying tonight:

⁸Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away.

So we got discussing what it means for love to never fail. And we decided that the only way that love never fails is if it is perfect love. And the only perfect love comes from God. This is not the breakthrough. Hold on. Ok so we decided that Perfect love come from God and that is why it can never fail, but what about the rest of the verse? Prophecies will cease, tongues will be stilled, knowledge will pass away. Alright, prophecies, seeing the future, foretelling biblical/spiritual events, will stop. Means that love continues past prophecy, right? Tongues will be stilled. All the languages and words we used will stop. No more babbling about uselessness, and then finally, knowledge will pass away. Knowledge we decided is reason or logic. Ok so here is what I got out of this, sorry if it is elementary, Gods perfect love is beyond reason. Which I know for most of you is not a shocker. BUT I think it is great because right now all over the world there are people doubting. Doubting in Gods existence because they have too much information in their heads, too much doubt. But here's the thing. LOVE takes reason. God is love. God takes reason. I don't care what you think you know about everything, science, whatever. God trumps it because God is Love and LOVE never fails. AH ha.

I guess basically, in the end it isn't going to matter what has been predicted, it isn't going to matter how many languages you know how to speak, it isn't going to matter how many scientific discoveries you made or read about. All that matters is that God loves us.

the end.

Michelle