Is True Love found or Chosen? | Saturday, September 08, 2007
It was interesting for me when I was discussing the topic of Jacob's wives Leah and Rachel with my teacher about the topic of love where she believes insistently that true love has to be found and it was not chosen whereas I believe otherwise.
I spent a few minutes thinking about this and I still came to believe strongly of my views. I personally feel that you choose whom you want to love and that is true love indeed and it is not like you are waiting for a guy oк gal to come long and when lightning struck, then you will discover that you love each other. I feel that is a romantic view of love and maybe I felt that is not very practical.
I feel that Jesus comes to this world because He has chosen to love us and desires for us to be reconciled to His Father who also loves us deeply and dearly and He paid a price that is too dear and too impossible for us to pay Him back. If true love is found, what if there comes a time when Jesus found someone He could love and worthy of His love, will He cast us aside and focus all His being to love that person? That thought will be too horrible to contain and to think for me.
All of us are fallen creatures and there is nothing in us that is worthy to be loved by God and yet, He chooses to die for us who will not even respond to His sacrifice and even will laugh at Him, mock Him as if He has been cursed by God and humiliate Him. Despite all our cruelty and mocking, He still says that He loves us and His love brought forth actions in that He dies for us. That supreme example shows that He did not wait for love to come by but that He chooses love first and that should be my example.
I can love somebody who decides not to love me. I can love my enemies even though they may choose to harm me and that is what love is all about. We choose to love because He loves us first, not because of our behavior but because of His choice. In theу same way, I can choose to love you for a long time even when you don't respond to my love and that doesn't mean that I will have to find somebody who have a better response to my love. The choice is mine and it was my decision to choose whether I want to love or withhold my affection and love. However, I was thinking that if we choose to withhold our love, something inside us dies because we are created in the image of God, who is love. Thus in other words, I am thinking that we are created to love and that we are created to give and response to love, that is our basic function and that is why children at a young age, teenagers, young adults and old adults all need love and can give love because that is our function in life. Love speaks in many ways but if we choose to stifle it or to quench it, something inside us dies and we become bitter, angry, frustrated and wonder why and how have we ever reach to such a state and it's all because we choose to withhold our love for one another.
I love you not because of what you can bring me, not because of your actions or how pretty you are when you smile or especially when you feel cranky but because of who you are. Yes, there are times when love is difficult but that doesn't mean that I will withhold my love from you but that love is a choice and I have already made my choice. I will not go around searching for love when my choice is already made and I think that is the same with Jesus. Have you made your choice?
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