True Love

Janet and I celebrated 36 years of marriage July 17. That’s a long time.

I often remind couples during the wedding ceremony that they are making a promise for a lifetime. They make this promise without knowing what the future holds. Many challenges await them, but they promise to be faithful.

How can two people, not knowing the future, make a promise of faithfulness one to another?

God’s love is the guarantee of the promise. Love never fails, as the Apostle Paul eloquently reminds (1 Corinthians 13:8). The gift of God’s love is the reason that two people can make a promise for a lifetime without knowing the future.

The power of love is not that we love God or one another. It is that God loves us. Can you capture this with your heart and head? God loves you—passionately and beyond explanation. This love is the central power of the universe. It holds together the Trinity. The Three are One because of divine love.

So two can become one through the power of this love.

The freedom to love is granted us by the Creator God. Love must be free to be real. How could anyone coerce true love?

Love freely given and freely received—this is the ebb and flow of the divine nature and the true description of the greatest cosmic force. You will never run across anything greater than the love of God.

What are you waiting for? Leap into the current of love and discover what the Creator intended for your life.