When the world attempts to pull us in every direction but towards the path that God may have in mind for us it can be frustrating to find our way towards God.    Technology, work, busy schedules, school, friends, family, household responsibilities, errands, hobbies, exercise, bills, our community and sometimes even church fight for our attention.  After all this, how much quality time do we have left to be alone with God?  It can be so hard to remove ourselves from all of the demands that life offers.  Have you ever felt a commitment to follow the Lord in a certain missional or service direction only later to find yourself struggling to find time with God because you are always so busy working to serve and love others unto Him?  (Was that a confusing statement?)  I believe the enemy will try to use anything, even what was meant for good, to get us off track.

When everything gets confusing and messy in relationships, it’s difficult to understand which word or action is best.    Sometimes I cannot understand, repair or make heads or tales about an issue going on in or around my life and it often seems impossible to figure out which way is the better way to turn.  I could spend hours trying to understand the way of the world.  And even more hours trying to understand the logic of God.  I’ll never figure it all out and that’s okay with me.

But, I never ever want to get “stuck” on a confusing, circling Ferris-wheel of a worldly life, because I believe it is these confusing cycles that are most probably the enemies way to keep me from moving forward with God.  So when people or life try knowingly or unknowingly to confuse me, make me stumble, bring me down or cause me to circle around – I go to this verse:  1 Corinthians 13:8, “Love never fails.”  When it all get’s messy or when I don’t understand the situations that are going on around me, I feel that I am called not to try and figure it all out but to just love all those in front of or around us.  And according to scripture, love will never fail.  (God is love -no wonder it does not and cannot fail! 1 John 4:8)

The Asha’s Refuge staff  tries to hold this verse very close to our hearts while working in the inner city with our refugee friends.  We recognize there are many difficult situations and unanswered questions when serving the poor and even more when serving poor and oppressed foreigners.  We are happy that we don’t have to know the answer to all of the “why’s” in order to offer love to those who are put in front of us.  We trust that God will show us what we need to know as He sees fit.  When it all gets confusing and we are trying to prayerfully figure out what to do…the answer is usually for us to just love.  Love has yet to fail us.

This reminds me of a song…Brandon Heath – Love Never Fails Us – click here to watch a video and listen.

For further information or study, we recommend: 1 Corinthians 13 – A Definition of “love”.