Love Never Fails

Today for the sermon at Grace, we were taught about the greatest commandments of all.  " Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.  The second is this: Love your neighbor as yourself.  There is no commandment greater than these.”  


Love.  So many times we here the words "love" and automatically think romance.  Some think it awkward to here someone say "I love you" to someone other than their spouse, boyfriend or girlfriend.  Jesus wants us to.  Not just to say it, but mean it.  To everyone.  Not romantically, but out of brotherly love. 


Does this mean we forget about the commandments He gave to Moses at Mt. Sinai?  Not at all.  This commandment means we must follow them all the more.  By following the ten commandments today, we follow them because we want to be closer to God.  We want to love God by fleeing from murder, lying, sexual adultery.  How do we show we love God?  By loving others. 


Love is an amazing word.  It is a word we either fling around too often or not enough.  It is a word that can restore a heart or crush it.  Love is a powerful word, and it can change a life if used right.  


I have lyrics to a song by Brandon Heath that I wanted to share.  I thought it appropriate.  Love your fellow man, and love the God worthy of your all.  How can you show love?


Love is not proud
Love does not boast
Love after all
Matters the most

Love does not run
Love does not hide
Love does not keep
Locked inside

Love is the river that flows through
Love never fails you

Love will sustain
Love will provide
Love will not cease
At the end of time

Love will protect
Love always hopes
Love still believes
When you don’t

Love is the arms that are holding you
Love never fails you

When my heart won’t make a sound
When I can’t turn back around
When the sky is falling down
Nothing is greater than this
Greater than this

Love is right here
Love is alive
Love is the way
The truth the life

Love is the river than flows through
Love is the arms that are holding you
Love is the place you will fly to
Love never fails you