Paul’s affirmation, “Love never fails” (1 Corinthians 13:8), assures us that God, who created us, knows and understands us, loves us with eternal love that is greater than the darkness, lifts us out of the darkness into His light, forgives our sins, re-creates us into a new person, gives us a new birth, salvation, and a new mind, motivates and guides us, transforms our sadness into joy, our desperation into hope, our hate into love r, and gives us His peace that “transcends all understanding” (Philippians 4;7).