Love always perseveres

We have covered many different aspects of love thus far and they all have one thing in common. They can be faked. It is possible to fake patience and kindness, etc. There is one last thing that is the final step to discovering the authenticity of love. Until it has been added to everything else, love is really not love yet. Before love leaves the assembly line and is given the label of authenticity, it must be tested. This testing is essential not only to prove it is really love, but also to survive, thrive, and grow.

Perseverance is the result of combining all these essential qualities of true love. There is only one way to know for certain whether love is real love or not. It has to make it through the fire. Either it will persevere or it will melt away.

We must have opposition and adversity to experience the incredible endurance, the perseverance of love. And yet, adversity is the very thing many people take as evidence of false love. We've learned that love is supposed to make suffering and hardship go away, but the truth is that nothing does that. The very purpose of love is to persevere and hold on in the midst of trails.

Many of us have been taught that adversity was a result of the Fall, and if Adam and Eve had not sinned, we would never experience adversity of any kind. This is untrue. Adversity was created by God and is needed to build strength. The Bible says that even Jesus learned obedience through suffering. If Jesus was the second Adam and was completely without sin, why would suffering teach him anything? Everything in this world grows and is tested through adversity. Trees become stronger through drought and storms.

"extracts from Misunderstood God by Darin Hufford"

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and I will become stronger too.