Thursday, March 29, 2012

Love

I have loved you with an everlasting love (Jeremiah 31:3).

"Love" is a word that gets overused. We use the word love to describe how we feel about our pets. We talk about loving our jobs. We even brag about how much we love having a new car. We use the word love to describe the powerful connection we have with parents, children, and those we are intimate with—how sad that the same word is also used to describe how we feel about a favorite brand of pizza.

Love is a term that often gets abused. There are men who say that they love someone, yet their concept of love can involve intimidation and abuse. There are women whose definition of love includes obsession and manipulation. There are young people whose experience with love has taught them to seek pleasure wherever and however they can, regardless of the consequences. It is terribly sad that so many people associate love with pain and regret.

But regardless of how it is misused and abused, talk of love always captures our attention. This is because love is essential to our happiness. When you don’t feel loved, you can be lonely in a crowd. When you don’t feel loved, it becomes extremely hard to deal with other challenges. Feeling unloved and alone with your problems has resulted in many attempts at suicide.

To be loved, you need someone else—someone who sees value in you, someone who wants to spend time with you. Only a narcissist finds love within himself, and narcissists are not emotionally healthy. God made us to be social—from the beginning the LORD said that it is not good to be alone. This basic need for love and companionship fills the Internet with dating services and keeps the liquor flowing at singles’ bars.

Sadly, we all have personality flaws—flaws that undermine relationships and result in being lonely. But even when your life seems empty of love, you have someone who cares about you and wants to spend time with you. That person is Jesus. You might not feel Him holding your hand, but the Bible is packed with messages that He has sent to you. In those words you can hear the love that He feels for you. He always has time to listen when you speak to Him in prayer. Regardless of how others have treated you, remember that there is one Person whose love will never let you down.

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