Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
*daily devotional*
You can learn a lot about a person by what his or her T-shirt says. Recently, one of these messages caught my attention as I walked through a local shopping mall. A young woman wore a bright red T-shirt that said, ?Love Is for Losers.? Maybe she thought it was clever or provocative, even funny. Or perhaps she had been hurt by a relationship and had pulled away from others rather than risk being hurt again. Either way, the T-shirt got me thinking.
Is love for losers? The fact is, when we love, we take risks. People could very well hurt us, disappoint us, or even leave us. Love can lead to loss.
The Bible, though, challenges us to higher ground in loving others. In 1 Corinthians 13, Paul describes what it means to live out God?s kind of love. The person who exercises godly love doesn?t do so for personal benefit or gain but rather ?bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things? (13:7). Why? Because godly love endures beyond life?s hurts by pulling us relentlessly toward the never-diminishing care of the Father.
So, perhaps love is for losers?for it is in times of loss and disappointment that we need God the most. Even in our struggles, we know that ?love never fails.? ? Bill Crowder
Unfailing is God?s matchless love,
So kind, so pure, so true;
And those who draw upon that love
Show love in what they do. ?D. De Haan
God?s love never fails.