Matthew 24:12, 13: “Because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.”
The agape love that God sheds abroad in our hearts (Romans 5:5) is an enduring love which enables us to endure whatever we have to face in life. God’s love for us never fails.
Lamentations 3:22, 23: “It is of the LORD’S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.”
Romans 8:35-39: “Who shall separate us from the love of Christ, shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?” Paul continues giving a whole list of hardships. However, he states that he is persuaded that there is nothing in Heaven or earth that can stop God from loving us.
Therefore, we must ask ourselves the following questions:
• Why do we cut off one another?
• Why do many Christians separate themselves from one another?
• Why are many Christian families are at war with one another?
• Why are many Christian marriages either in a state of tension, stress, arguments, and fightings with each other?
• And why do so many, sad to say, end up divorced?
Where is the enduring love that God, through Christ, has shed abroad in our hearts? It is obvious that so much of the church knows very little about enduring love.
The simple truth is that God has given freely to each one of us all of His enduring agape love, but we for the most part, are still operating in our own fallen, selfish, conditional love. Our human love falls far short of the endurance of God’s love.
As new creatures in Christ, we must learn how to live in the enduring love of God. Only then can we reveal to the world, the church, our own spouses and families, the true “enduring all things” love of Christ.
Be encouraged.
Colin Campbell