So I was going through one of these mental emotional storms or whirlwinds where I can feel my heart wanting to long for that elusive dream of my past. To have someone to be with. Could it be the cold weather? My flesh wishes to just grasps a hold of whatever is available to get close to. But I know it is just my mind playing tricks and my flesh wanting to sin. Usually such thought would tag team me with depression and self pity. I guess it was like a handicap match, but God is so gracious and able to help us. I usually loss such brawls in my past.
The silly things my heart seeks to do to gain a facsimile of love...should be called a FAUSEFARCE or PSUEDOHYPERBOLE of love. So in the midst of subduing my thoughts, this thought invaded my head. About how we are supposed to seek love, and how we actually do.
I have dealt with my own issues with the opposite sex, but I know of many who talk about how they have had such intensely difficult and hurtful relationships that they can't see how they can love again. I know of sisters who see their mom struggle and decide they don't want to marry, but they have traded in that life for one of casual sex or uncommitted relationships. So many of our youth in high schools are engaged in friendships with benefits, or just benefits with someone they find attractive. There are so many who don't seek love, but there heart still longs for it. The beauty of life is we can do better. As a matter of fact, we must strive to love better every day!
"We Can Be More" - By Sho Baraka courtesy of REACH RECORDS
You ever hear of the sayings "LOVE IS BLIND" or the song that chants "LOVE STINKS." I remember a song by Debra Cox called "We can't be friends." When I listen to that song now I see how it's just a song about the confusion that grows because of this fake luv we see and experience every day. The thing is we forget that we never learned to LOVE in the first place. It was not until we met God that we even began to understand what love its. God's the originator of love and he has given us His word as a testimony to His love and his mind on how we should love. After all...
10For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of God.
11For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? Even so the thoughts of God no one knows except the Spirit of God.
12Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God,
1 Corinthians 2:10-12 (New American Standard Bible)
We cannot learn to love until we know God, and once we know God we can learn, not to love again, but REALLY LOVE.
"REAL LOVE" -by D. Montrell
