Love Is Invincible

I recently attended a wedding where a Catholic bride was wedded to a non-denominational Evangelical groom 😊. Before the nuptials his pastors had hoped that she would get ‘saved’ and baptized and her priest had impressed upon him that the Catholic Church was the only true church. They each listened politely but were unfazed. Their love for each other and respect that they had for their equally fervent but slightly unique faiths in God had been cemented in Christ by the Holy Spirit beyond the reach of doctrinal dogma.

The wedding
started with the Latin song Veni Creator Spiritus, inviting the Holy Spirit.
And He came. The church filled with joy, peace and love, mirroring the natural
ambience created by the sunlight that filtered through the stained-glass
windows and a light breeze that wafted through the sanctuary.

I suppose men
will be arguing points of doctrine until Christ returns but you know what you
can’t argue with? Love. God IS love.

“You shall
love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all
your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it:
You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all
the Law and the Prophets.”

Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures
all things.Love never ends. As for prophecies,
they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will
pass away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the
perfect comes, the partial will pass away. When I was a child, I spoke like a
child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I
gave up childish ways. For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face.
Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known.
So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is
love.

Love is the greatest! There is no higher law. Everything else will
fade, everything else will give way under the sheer force of love. In the midst
of our dark ignorance, constant failures and stumbling faith, God will still
show up… for love.

In the midst of that church, a bridge of love was forged in the
Spirit. Pastor and priest joined hands with bride and groom and God smiled. Two
families united and the Holy Spirit danced. A multitude of sins were covered
over and Jesus was glorified.