Yesterday’s thoughts about “always pray” and “always seek the Lord’s face” left me thinking about that word “always.” Merriam-Webster tells us that always means “at all times” and “forever.” Probably just what you thought it meant.
1 Corinthians 13 is known as the “Love Chapter” in the New Testament. In that chapter Paul reminds us that while we should desire the gifts of the Holy Spirit, we gain nothing – even should we have all the gifts flowing through us – if we have not love. He then goes on to describe how love should operate in our walk. Most of the translations that I looked at translate Verse 7 like the NKJV does: “[love] bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
But I like how the NIV uses the word “always” in Verse 7 to describe love. “[Love] always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.”
Love protects at all times and forever. Love trusts at all times and forever. Love hopes at all times and forever. Love perseveres at all times and forever.
I do like that word “always.”
