Live a fail-safe lifestyle

As God's children our faith can fail without the love of God.  Remember what the Lord Jesus told Peter in Luke 22:32 (NLT) "32 But I have pleaded in prayer for you, Simon, that your faith should not fail. So when you have repented and turned to me again, strengthen your brothers.”"  So evidently our faith can fail, otherwise Jesus wouldn't have had to pray for Peter that his faith wouldn't fail.  But the one thing that we can base our lifestyle on that will not fail is the love of God.  To live this fail-safe lifestyle, we must walk in the love of God.  To get just a glimpse of this love that our Heavenly Father walks in that we are also admonished to walk in we look at 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (NKJV) ” 4 Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; 5 does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; 6 does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails…”  I also like how NLT translates 1 Corinthians 13:4-7.  It says,  “4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6 It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7 Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.”  This gives us just a glimpse of what our love walk should look like.  If we will walk in the love of God, we will be more successful then we have ever imagined, and our faith won't fail..