February  23

Love Always Trusts

 
  The ultimate trust in which any human will ever engage is the trust in Jesus to do what He said He would do – forgive us and cleanse us of our sins and then to shield us starting right now, today, all the way into eternity.  This trust goes deeper than any other, for if we are wrong or if the Lord Master cannot be counted on to do His promised part, then the failure is ultimate and eternal.  Therefore, in this single area, none of us can literally ever afford to be wrong! 

Jesus promised us in John 3:16, "... that whosever believes in Him shall have everlasting life."  That word 'believes' is the same word used in 1 Corinthians 13:7 as "...love believes all things" and sometimes is translated as "...love always trusts."  Its most literal meaning is, ‘to willfully place one's ultimate faith or confidence into something or someone in the sense of a profound trust.’ 

  Jesus came as the fleshly incarnation of God's ultimate love – an offering to those whom He had called and created to be His own.  And we are called to place all of our faith and trust in that love offering, in the most profound and important trust we will ever depend on with our eternal lives.  That trust is based entirely on our receiving God's love offering.  God literally gave us a love we can trust into eternity because God's love will never fail us, ever.  It cannot and it will never fail any of His eternal children.

  And likewise, we are called out to be such bulwarks of this kind of love and trust as we offer our love to others.  We are to be like parents who will faithfully love their son even though he lives on death row.  Or the spouse who will love their partner even though they have been unfaithful, as God loved and continues to love his unfaithful people. 

We are called to love with such depth and fervency that those who count on us will never have to worry about losing our love, just as we never have to worry about God giving up on us, ever, no matter what.  Each of us can give this ultimate gift – a trust of permanent love handed freely to all so that each of them can always rely on our capacity never to let go – because love's Fountainhead will never run dry within us!