Love Never Fails

prematurely—because they lived so much in
the natural that they couldn't take
advantage of the rights and privileges that
belonged to them as children of God. They
always were fussing and fighting. Friends,
these kinds of things will not only affect
your spirit; they'll affect your mind and your
body too.
"Love ... takes no account of the evil done
to it...." That has to be the God-kind of love,
because Paul says that while we were the
enemies of God (Col. 1:21), God didn't take
account of the evil done to Him. He loved us
and sent Jesus to redeem us. He loved us
while we were yet sinners (Rom. 5:8).
"Love... pays no attention to a suffered
wrong...." "But they did me wrong!" people
say. Can't you see that if people walked in
love—which is what God wants—it would
straighten things out in the home and the
church? That's God's answer.
The next verses read, "It [love] does not
rejoice at injustice and unrighteousness, but
rejoices when right and truth prevail. Love