The most abused word in our times is the word love. People have gone ways to the extreme to describe love in a funny manner. When did love become about looks and physical composition of a being. When did love stop being a thing of the heart, matters of concern, care, affection and a matter of life and death? If Gods love was just a mare document called contract then we will all be loveless. Sometimes in our peer group we have made jokes about people and have said that they are unlovable, well come to think of it, who deserves to be loved? We are all unlovable when it comes to God, but he loves us still because he is love.
In the older times a husband who loves was known as a provider. He had to make sure that the family had all the basic needs, the wife dresses elegantly and all the kids grow up with all the basic needs i.e. food, clothing and shelter. A lot of these have really changed in the current generation and love has been defined with funny things which don’t match to it at all. Paul gives a really wonderful definition of what love is in 1st Corinthians 13.4, he says love is patience, kind, doesn’t envy and a lot of really great things. I have read this verse over and over again and nowhere does it say that love is having a lot of money, great looks, pretty dimples and six packs.
If you read in the news papers you will come across the many columns about love seekers, people give the funny descriptions of themselves and the kind of lovers they are looking for, ladies are looking for responsible men who are financially stable and working with as cabin crew, single of cause dark and handsome, while the guys are looking for the beautiful brown ladies who are loving affectionate and working as blah! Blah! Blah! Nonsense if you ask me.
Love is not blind but visionary; it sees into the heart of an object and not the physical part and sees the real self behind and in the midst of all frailties and shortcomings of a person. Love is not about what we have, how we look and where we work, it’s about complimenting each other in the way we care and make ourselves available for each other, it’s about understanding and accepting each other in the ways we think, the things we have and do and helping one another become better versions of themselves and not becoming us.
We can’t find true love in the looks of people or cars they drive, love is not self seeking but always contented, love delights in good and not evil, love makes us happy and joyous in the midst of sorrows and it conquers all. Media has made love cheap, something to attain just by sending a message with a word; for you to find true love, you have to accept and love yourself. You don’t need a classic job to be loved or wear make-ups for someone to love you for we don’t fall in love but grow in love, no one is an expert in loving but we all are learning to love and in reality we don’t find love but love finds us.
The current generation is so much into what the other person can give, and owns and this has captured our inner thoughts that we have forgotten the attributes of love. Love goes beyond the emotions and physical appearance, God says that he loves us not because of what we do, how we look like or what we have, God’s love is not based on us but he bases his love on himself, he loves us and how we look like won’t stop him. We are fearfully and wonderfully made and through his strength we can do all things. He says that nothing can separate us from his love and for me that is a true definition of love.
True love is undying devotion; it’s the desire of intimacy. Love is a feeling of completeness, forgiving, inspiring and understanding. Love is the attainment of life’s greatest inspiration. It’s supporting, but not overbearing. Love is beautiful and in it we find beauty, when we are in love then, the shape of the head won’t matter but the brains in that head, when in love the complexion won’t be a problem, coz they are all beautiful, black or white, dark or light. When you find true love you will work together to buy all those things you desire, you will fit into their shoes and they will fit into yours.
The best place to learn about love is in the realms of the loving father through his son Jesus Christ who loved us to the point of death, we didn’t deserve it and can’t even pay for it, but because he loves us he still did. When you have experience Jesus Christ and his gift of grace then am sure we will start describing love as it should. Love has fire to burn away all the pains and heartaches we experience, it can burn away all the weakness and bore some strength in us, it can motivate, inspire and energize. Love has the power to revive and change lives, restore relationships and bring healing, all else may fail, but love never fail. Let us ask from God, true love and we will never be the same
Wake up let us journey on.
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