Don’t Give Up! - The One Year Love Language Minute Devotional

Don’t Give Up!

Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

1 Corinthians 13:7

I’VE BEEN COUNSELING people with marital struggles for more than thirty years. Often they come alone because their spouse will not come with them. And often they have no hope. They are living in very difficult marriages.

I am under no illusion that I can provide a magic formula to bring healing to all such marriages. However, I do believe that in every troubled relationship, one partner can take positive steps that have the potential to change the emotional climate between the two of them. The first step is to decide not to give up. Read a book, talk with a counselor or pastor, or share with a trusted friend, but don’t give up. According to the verse above—taken from the apostle Paul’s famous “love chapter”—when you don’t give up, don’t lose faith, maintain hope, and endure, you’re practicing love the way God defines it. That brings great encouragement. After all, nothing is impossible with God.

Father, I believe that anything is possible for you. When my relationship seems so difficult—or even beyond repair—I come to you, the healer. Please rekindle my hope and breathe new life into our marriage.

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