Love Never Gives Up

Wisdom Nugget : Love never gives up on people. It never stops trusting, never loses hope, and never quits. 

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One of the reasons life brings people into our lives is because everybody has something special to offer the other person to make their lives better, and since no man is an island life will always use iron to sharpen iron.

Paul puts it thus :  "He makes the whole body fit together perfectly. As each part does its own special work, it helps the other parts grow, so that the whole body is healthy and growing and full of love".

This truth applies to all relationships :"As each part does its own special work, it helps the other parts grow". So our growth is partly a function of the special part or role played in our lives by others. This implies straight away that none of us is perfect but that one of the essence of great relationships is the ability to leave people better than you met them.

Baltasar Gracian said "True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils". If we all understand that friends are in our lives not only for what we can get from them but for the special way in whcih he can affect their lives, then the world would be a better place. So as we relate with people get ready to see their faults, mistakes, dysfunctions, skewed lifestyle and failures.

Don't give up on people because we all need friends to be patient with us. Before you give up on your friend, according to our text, ask yourself "have I done my own special work or fulfilled my divine assignment in this life ?" And if the answer is a "No" then you have no right to give up on them.
During a terrible storm at sea that threatened every moment to carry the ship to the bottom, one of the ship’s crew was doing something on the deck when a great sea struck the ship and went fairly over the deck, striking this man with great force, disabling him and carrying him into the mad waters.
Although he was a good swimmer, he was so disabled that he could only keep his head above water. They saw him lifting up his imploring hands through the white foam, signifying his desire for help. But the Captain said, "Don’t lower a boat, for no small boat can live in this sea, in this terrific storm. We cannot save the man. The most we can do is to save the ship."

The vessel was bearing farther and farther from the helpless man. Once more they saw his imploring hands come up among the white caps further off, which moved all hearts that witnessed it. Still the Captain said a small boat must not be lowered, as it could not live a moment among these wild billows. But one man who was an expert swimmer, was so moved by the imploring signals of the drowning man, that he threw off his loose garments, saying: "I will save that man, or die with him."
So plunging into the surging deep, he struggled so bravely with the mad waters, that he reached the poor man just as his strength had gone; he had given up and was filling with water, and sinking down unconscious. He grasped him, and strange to tell, he brought him so near the ship that a small boat was lowered, and both men were taken up and laid down upon the deck. The one that had been swept overboard, entirely unconscious and his deliverer nearly so. Appliances were used and both were brought to consciousness.
As soon as the rescued man opened his eyes and found he was not in the ocean, his first words were: "Who saved me?"

He was pointed to his deliverer still lying on the deck in his wet clothes. He crept to his deliverer, and putting his arms around his feet, and in the most tender and heart moving tone of voice cried out: "I’m your servant, I’m your servant." He felt that he could never do enough for him.

 Love never gives up on people.