Sunday, February 13, 2011
Love is all there is nowadays ─ posters, movies, commercials, songs, even the people themselves. Not engaging myself to the world’s excitement to the 14th of this month’s event, I was reminded of another goodread I chanced upon online two years ago.
"The world calls romance, love, but they are polar opposites. You will find no romance in love, nor any love in romance. Satan seduces the gullible into the deceits of romance. But once you are made aware you'll not be tricked like the world.
Think about it and you will see that romance is imaginary; a dream, false, quixotic, temperamental and vain. Love is the unselfish giving of your heart to another, it knows no sacrifice. Romance is completely selfish: love is utterly selfless. Romance arrives at dawn, and vanishes by breakfast: real love endures from eternity to eternity. Romance says, "If you don't keep pleasing me, we are history." Love says, "I go wherever you go". Love is genuine, never changes, never fails.
Human love disintegrates at the slightest chill. When you look for love in anybody but the Lord Jesus Christ you will certainly be let down. Perhaps you've already found out that Gospel truth. God doesn't give Valentines. He gave His Only Begotten Son.
Think about it and you will see that romance is imaginary; a dream, false, quixotic, temperamental and vain. Love is the unselfish giving of your heart to another, it knows no sacrifice. Romance is completely selfish: love is utterly selfless. Romance arrives at dawn, and vanishes by breakfast: real love endures from eternity to eternity. Romance says, "If you don't keep pleasing me, we are history." Love says, "I go wherever you go". Love is genuine, never changes, never fails.
Human love disintegrates at the slightest chill. When you look for love in anybody but the Lord Jesus Christ you will certainly be let down. Perhaps you've already found out that Gospel truth. God doesn't give Valentines. He gave His Only Begotten Son. The antidote to romance is Love: real Love, unfailing Love, and there's only one way to know Real Love, you must know The LORD Jesus Christ personally. When you do, you'll be cured of romance, you'll begin the wonderful adventure of exploring the limitless heights, depths, and breadths of Real Love. It's what you were made for."
Originally posted on February 12, 2008.
More than anyone else, the Author of love is the best matchmaker. And so after getting tired of putting things in my hands, after looking back on how poorly I equated love with selfish desires, I now stand to embrace God’s perfect plan to happen at the perfect time, to match perfectly a pair of imperfects molded at His footstool.
Posted in: love is all there is,prayers,quiet heart
3 comments:
what a beautiful comparison between love and romance..
Advance Happy V-day!!
Brilliant post! The picture of love in the world is different from the love that Jesus shown unto us. For us love is about happiness but Jesus showed us love is about sacrifices. I hope everyone could read this post of yours. Thanks
@Beany: Thanks bottle-fed kiddo! ;') Hahaha
@Kira: Thank you Kira! I must admit forgetting at times the real essence of love, it's the sacrifice of Christ to define how deeply He loves His children. I learned loving God because He first loved me.
Congratulations, by the way, for winning the Bloggers t-shirt! I was one of the hopefuls in winning the i-Pad! Hahaha! But it was meant for someone else.
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