Love never fails.
1 Corinthians 13:8
Fear of failure. It’s haunted all of us at some time in our lives. Popular psychology tells us to adjust to it. But the Word of God tells us there is a failure-proof way to live without it. It is the way of LOVE.
To know real success, you must learn to be moved and motivated by love. That’s how Jesus was when He was on the earth.
Throughout the Gospel of John we read how Jesus Emulated the Father: “The Son can do nothing of Himself, but what He sees the Father do” (John 5:19, New King James Version);“I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me” (6:38, NKJV);“I speak that which I have seen with my Father” (8:38, KJV); and this statement is to me the most Powerful, “He who has seen Me has seen the Father” (14:9, NKJV).
Even when John the Baptist was senselessly and brutally murdered and Jesus went away to be alone, He didn’t deviate from the way of love. Matthew 14:6-14 says that even then in that emotionally taxing time when the people followed Him and would give Him no solitude, He was moved with compassion and healed their sick.
I used to wonder how Jesus could just turn away from that terrible crime and not retaliate. What I didn’t realize was that He did retaliate. He overcame the works of Satan with compassion. He defeated hatred with love. He attacked Satan in the spirit realm by destroying his works of sickness and disease.
Jesus Came to Bring Heaven’s Atmosphere to Earth and to Reveal the Father’s Love. We see He Manifested this “God-love” everywhere He Went and with everyone He Met. Whenever a person had an encounter with Jesus, he had an encounter with the Pure Love of the Father. Whether it was Healing the sick, Forgiving the sinner or Raising the dead—this new Kind of Love on earth Impacted every life He Touched. Children were drawn to Jesus like a magnet—that was the Love of God. The broken-hearted found compassion and understanding in His Presence—that was the Love of God.
Compassion doesn’t strike at the surface of things. It goes to the root of the problem. That’s why it always succeeds.
“But wait!” you may say. “I can’t operate like that. I’m not Jesus.”
Yes, you can because the Word of God says His love has been shed abroad in your heart! (Rom. 5:5). And 1 John 2:5 says His love is perfected in you as you keep His Word.
Commit to living a life of love today. Watch God turn failure into success at home, at work…in any situation. LOVE NEVER FAILS, Amen!
Scripture Reading:
Matthew 14:1-14
