KEY SCRIPTURE: 1 Corinthians 13:7(Love) beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, and endureth all things”.

Love hopes all things. This means in every situation, especially in disappointing situations, love anticipates a better end.

Some marriages have gone on without the fruit of the womb. Many people advise the man to go for another, woman to bear children for him. Some men do yield to the pleas of their relations, yet, a man with the love of God, anticipates, that God’s word would come to pass. Despite the pressure, even from his parents, Siblings, and maybe, some close friends, still hoped that, one day the baby would come. (Well, faith takes hold of the answer before it manifests).

There are yet some characters, with certain, behaviors, that would cause a lot of people to give up on them, claiming nothing good would come out of such people. Love does not give up on such people. This drives them into intercession, trusting that the Holy Spirit would one day arrest such people and bring them to repentance.

The Europeans (there were two groups. One group were unconverted businessmen who came to enslave us. The second group was the converted loving missionaries who came prepared to die for Christ) who first brought the gospel to Africa, were maltreated at their initial moment of presenting the gospel to our forefathers. They were killed, and some of them died through, diseases like Malaria, yellow fever, and others. These missionaries despite these dangers believed that, one day they would win the Blackman for Jesus. Indeed, it happened, and we are the fruit of their labor. They hoped for victory and were very successful.

The Bible talked about the prodigal son, who took his portion of his father’s heritage and left off to a far country, spending everything. (Luke 15:11-32). When he was returning, the father saw him from a great way off. This father was all along expecting the son to come home. This was love hoping for all things.

Don’t give up on people or situations. Allow love to keep anticipating a change of events or situations. LOVE WOULD ALWAYS WIN.

CONFESSION

Because of the love of God, in me, I do not give up on people, I always anticipate that God’s word would one day come true in their lives.

THOUGHT: IT IS THE ANTICIPATION OF A BETTER END, THAT KEEPS LOVE HOPING THROUGH TO THE END

FURTHER STUDIES

Romans 5:4-5” And patience, experience; and experience, hope:  And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us”.

Luke 15:20 “And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him. “