Gods love never fails.... and it's the only one

So yesterday in my modern social problems we were talking about marriage... and divorce; which is a hard topic to avoid these days considering over half of all marriages end in divorce. It got me scared. The entire class was pretty much bagging on getting married saying that you are bound to fall out of love and have a miserable life. Then the class was asked to define love. It was funny watching them trying to scramble for words such as "sacrifice" and "trust". So I started to define love:
Patient
Kind
Not Envious
Not Boastful
Not proud
Honoring
Not Selfish
Slow to anger
No record of wrongs
Rejoices in the Truth
Protects
Trust
Hope
Perserverance

In short... this list is God. And it was provided to me from God in His word (1 Corinthians 13:4-7). Now in all honesty, I look at this list and am just a little bit intimidated. There is no way I can do all that. And I think that's where all the divorce comes in. We start out thinking we know what this whole love thing is about but in the end we come to realize that.... We as sinful humans don't have the capacity to love. We are simply... unable to love.

Then why on earth does God call us to love? And why would God form an institution that relies on love? Because God is LOVE. And if something relies on love, then in reality it relies on God. A friend of mine put it this way, "I love you so much, but none of that is on my own. In my own I have no capacity to love you. I have no capacity to accept your faults and mistakes. If it were up to me I would hold them against you. But I have GOD's love to fill me. I am possessed by God's love and am able to love you through that. And the mere fraction of God's love I can love you with is so much smaller that the fullness of the love that God has for you."

While she wasn't talking about marriage, I am fairly sure the principle applies there as well. ONLY GOD'S LOVE NEVER FAILS. When I say love never fails it means that God never fails. There is nothing that God's love can't do. Sure... if left to our own devices, divorce is a garentee, falling out of love is a garentee. But that is because they aren't understanding the true meaning of love.

So yeah... I'm not married and have no plans on being married soon but class kind of shook me up last night and I had to turn to God's word to fix it. And I decided to share that with you