Lately, i have realized alot about this whole love thing. Love on earth and heavenly love and how they are all tied together.
I have been reading the Circle Trilogy by Ted Dekker and this book has helped me alot.
I have gone through alot the past couple of weeks in the area of love, and I truly believe that God somehow worked this book into my life right when I needed it.
In the Circle Trilogy, it is basically all about love in so many ways. Whatever part of the books you are reading, love is always involved.
And I started to view love in a whole other way.
I always thought that the romantic love that we can feel for someone and the love that Jesus feels for us, were two different things.
But, I honestly and truly believe that God gave us romantic love and true love on earth, so we could have an idea of how he feels for us. I believe that the feelings we feel for a lover, is just a small piece of how He feels for us. And as I thought about that, I also created another opinion.
I myself have wondered if dating,relationships, or anything having to do with romantic love was a bad thing. I had often wondered if maybe God only intended love for a very special few people, and I was not one of them.
I use to think that dating was a bad thing in the eyes of God.
But then i started thinking even more.
I think that as followers of God, we have every right to love someone else on this earth. I believe that God wants us to share a little of the love He has given us with someone else. I think that God views a true relationship and true love as a very beautiful thing.
Don’t get me wrong, I never thought that God was against love. I believe that it’s what He’s all about. But, the christian community has such a horrible view towards romantic love before marriage. It’s like, You feel like people are going to judge you for having feelings for someone and acting on those feelings. I myself, am a hopeless romantic and I love the fact that I am. I have a true appreciation for love that alot of people really don’t have.
My wonderful friend Lauren Helmick helped me realize that as followers of Christ, we have a wonderful gift that alot of people don’t have. We realize the true beauty of love and the fact that it is so precious. Alot of people view love as an everyday thing, but when you know Christ’s love you can’t view it as an insignificant thing.
Just because I have such an appreciation for all kinds of love, doesn’t mean that i’m going to be dating every other person in the state. Because I’m not. I don’t date around, and I don’t want people to think that I’m now going to do that because I have a new view of things.
All i’m saying is. We should not be ashamed of love. And we should not think that God is ashamed of love. Because he gave us other people to experience love with, So we could experience some of His own feelings for us.
I know i might sound crazy. But it’s how I feel.
Don’t be ashamed to love someone. It’s a very beautiful thing.
