Love Conquers All

I asked the Lord as I saw today the martyrs being killed - How can you allow such a thing and not protect those who are in your Name? I do protect them, He declared. Then He showed me, Love conquers all. He overcame the world on the cross through His love for those who persecuted Him. Anything else He would've done - not died, come off the cross, rebuked them, fought back - wouldn't have been done in Love. Only by His divine Love for them did He die - and only by that Love did He live again. And it is that act of Love by which He overcame the world. So when His martyrs die their Love through Him in allowing the things to be done to them is their way of partaking in His overcoming. Anything less would not be love. But to stand and allow the world to have their way is to love them to the fullest, just as He did for us.

And I will show you a still more excellent way. If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging symbol. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.
Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrong doing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends.
I Corinthians 12:31-13:8 NRSV