As I press forward striving to be obedient to God's will, He continues to encourage me to let love reign in my life. Years ago, I would have become angry, distant, self-entitled, bitter, and unforgiving. My actions would have cause failure in the relationships I had with others. Instead of enduring, I would have found fault in others and walked away from them easily. I even did this with God without even knowing I was doing it.
In a culture that promotes feeling a sense of entitlement to not work through issues with other people, I had the support of the world behind me to help me as others encouraged my self righteousness.
Even when I did put in some bit of effort, I would use another persons lack of dedication (or other flaws) as my entitlement to give up. As I press on to walk in love even when it doesn't make sense to me, I see the results and am able to testify that it truly never does fail.
It is written that "the love of many shall grow cold". It says "many"; not few. It is something that we need to wake up to in order to take responsibility in the relationships that we have or have had instead of blaming others.
It is written that "love never fails". So then, that being true means that our failure is for lack of walking in love. Time for us all to get up to our feet, learn the love of God, and walk in it.
