Personally, I've kinda lost count with the number of times I have chosen to turn to imperfect, humane love that had failed me time after time...while a perfect divine love is left stranded by the side.
When things happen and I find no assurance of a physical shoulder around for me, I seem more ready to cry out for the lack of one, rather than rest in an ever-abiding love that has promised never to leave nor forsake me.
Is it because a human's love and affirmation seems more...tangible and relate-able? It almost seems like a fast-relief panadol we take, cause it does make us feel better...at least for the moment. As easier as it is, to just look for fast, periodical relief, it can lead to some problem as I realised.
There's an article that says the long-term harmful effects of over-reliance on panadol pills each time we have a headache. It seems to have the effect of reducing our threshold for pain, as we rely more and more on it.
I don't know if that's true, but in parallel, over-reliance on human love can make us dependant on it, and in time to come, become the "make or break" factor if we allow it. To be totally crippled when we find ourselves left alone, without the company of another person whom we seek to have, to find ourselves asking..."Does anybody love me?"
The days where God seems to naturally be on the 'blame list'.
Yet to those of us who's seen the frailty of human love, the process of being "abandoned" comes as a wake up call...an orchestration by His divine hands to point us to His unfailing love.
If I would allow my restless heart...
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A Love that Never Fails
“Love never fails.”
1 Corinthians 13:8
Some of you are so thirsty for this type of love. A love that never fails. Those who should have loved you didn’t. Those who could have loved you didn’t. You were left at the hospital. Left at the altar. Left with an empty bed. Left with a broken heart. Left with your question “Does anybody love me?”
Please listen to heaven’s answer. God loves you. Personally. Powerfully. Passionately. Others have promised and failed. But God has promised and succeeded. He loves you with an unfailing love. And his love—if you will let it—can fill you and leave you with a love worth giving.
So come. Come thirsty and drink deeply.
A Max Lucado devotional,
Thursday, November 02, 2006
