Looking For Love
We all want to find love. Fairy tales and romance novels fill our heads with fictitious stories of unrealistic love. Harlequin novels and other romance companies have profited off of women who seek love and romance. I think of the song, ’Looking for love in all the wrong places’, and think how true this title is.
Both men and women want to be loved. We try over and over again to find love and some do, but too many of us do not. Failed relationships and marriages ending in divorce are proof that the love we say we find is not lasting or true. We confuse lust with love, and sex which was designed by God for husband and wives has long since been forgotten. I would say in this day in age it would be rare to find a couple who are getting married to both be virgins if either are.
Is it because we are not worthy of being loved? It is more likely that because of our own self worth that we accept what we believe is love or settle for less than true love because we don’t want to grow old alone, or feel obligated to marry. We try to fill the emptiness inside of ourselves with people, possessions, or work and titles, to name just a few things. Yet we fail in finding true love because we are in fact looking for love in all the wrong places.For the only true love is found in Jesus. He loves us perfectly, for He loves us more than His own life.
John 3:16 (NKJV) For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
A love that is patient and kind. Merciful and forgiving. It holds no grudge or record of your wrongs. 1 Corinthians 13 is one of my favorite chapters in the Bible because even though I have not achieved this kind of love I know it is real and I strive to love like this more and more each day. Loving without expectation or demands. I am perfectly loved not because I am perfect but because that He is perfect in all things.Look to the One who gave His life for you, as you are. Who has loved you and will always love you. He never fails you, and will never lie to you or cheat on you. He will never abandon you.His love give you life. Passion and lust fade and die but His True Love is eternal.
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Am looking for a job!!! I can’t love any man in the place where I live now! May God help me, amen. Please pray for me that I find a great humane job, where am treated with respect & dignity, amen.
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You have good priorities, praying for you and please pray for me I too am looking for employment.
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May the lord help the 2 of us & all the folks looking for honorable, dignified, & respectful jobs with awesome salaries, amen.
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The more time goes on, the more of God’s love that I realize I’m missing out on. If I really knew God’s love, I wonder if I would even have time to notice my singleness.
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Thanks Brandon for your comment. I seem to notice being single more when I am told I need to find someone. Yet I am happy single and don’t feel the need to go out on the hunt. If the time comes and God makes it happen then it will but if it does not happen that is okay. Being loved by God is the most important need that I have.
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So wise, bless you.
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wonderful post, and one of my favorite songs to go with it.
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Thank you Vicki God bless you with His abundant love
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I once watched Urban Cowboy over and over again when I spent holidays alone. We do need to be loved and to love. God created us that way.
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Thank you for reading and for your comment.
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