You can learn a lot about a person by what their t-shirt says. Recently, one of these messages caught my attention as I strolled through a local super market. A young woman wore a bright red t-shirt that read: "Love Is For Losers". Maybe she thought it was clever, or funny. Or perhaps she'd been hurt by a relationship and had pulled away from another rather than be hurt again. Either way, that t-shirt made me think.
Is love for losers? The fact is, when we love we take risks. People could very well hurt us, disappoint us, or even leave us. Love can lead to loss.
The Bible challenges us to a higher ground in loving others. In 1 Corinthians 13, Paul describes what it means to live out God's kind of love. The person who exercises godly love doesn't do it for personal benefit or gain but bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things (13:7). Why? Because godly love endures beyond life's hurts by pulling us relentlessly toward the never-diminishing care of the Father.
So, perhaps love is for losers - for it is in times of loss and disappointment that we need God the most. Even in our struggles we know that "Love Never Fails" God's love never fails.
"TalkerCat"
.... Now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love ... 1 Cor 13:13
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