What do you think of when you hear the word "love"? Acceptance? Caring? When I think of love, I think of God. God IS love and He loves us infinitely. I've really been thinking these last couple of days about how much God loves us, and every time I do, it never ceases to amaze me. God's love is completely unconditional and I guess that's what blows me away. We have done nothing and never will do anything that can be deserving of His love, yet He continues to love on us despite our shortcomings.
If you think of human love, we are incapable of loving anyone the way God loves us. We tend to love depending on how people treat us. For me, I find it much easier to love someone who is kind than someone who acts rude towards me. I don’t know about you, but I am grateful that God doesn’t love me the way I tend to sometimes choose to love (or shall I say “not love”?) others.
As I thought about God’s love, I started thinking about how much His love fulfills me compared to, say, my parents love for me. It’s great to know I have friends and family that love me, but their love can never truly satisfy me the way God’s can. That being said, a boy’s love and acceptance cannot fulfill me either.
You see, at times I tend to think that when I finally meet “the one” I will be completely fulfilled. But, when I do that, I’m trying to place a guy’s love where only God’s love can fit. Only God will ever truly make me content. Only His love can truly fulfill me. Only His love will satisfy me. Only HIS love. I want to reiterate that so much because it is so true and until we get it in our minds that only God will be our one true love, we will never be ready for an earthly romance. If we go around trying to put the pressure on guys to love us like Jesus, we will only go through a cycle of heartache and disappointment.
Here’s my encouragement to you as well as myself: Find your fulfillment in Jesus. Make Him number one in your heart. Make Him the center of your dreams, thoughts, opinions, feelings-give Him anything and everything. Give Him all of you. Although we can never love God as much as He loves us, we can strive to love Him with our lives. How we spend our time, what we say, think, and do-everything about us can be a way of saying, “Jesus, I love you and I want to fall even more in love with you!” So let’s stop waiting for guys to try and fill us up when we have Jesus. He has been knocking on the door of our hearts saying, “Here I am. I love you. Will you give me your life? Will you give me your love?”
In Christ,
Madison
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