He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not
We spend a whole time of time seeking things in life. Movies
like “The Pursuit of Happyness” depict a man just trying to be happy. He’s
experienced some harsh realities and is forced to make some tough decisions
that could either make or break him. This feel good story shows us that if you
pursue the right things, you will get the right results.
But how do you know what the right things are? If we take a
look around us we can quickly see that most of the world has not figured out
the right things to chase. Most of us have a desire to be happy, or to be
loved. So we do the things that we think will help us feel that love and
happiness (as Al Green so eloquently put it). The world we live in forces us to
believe that we have to perform in order to receive love. We are missing the
mark on what true love really is. Most of the time we find ourselves
disappointed when we try to make people love us. Our pursuit of them leaves us
empty and void of any reality of what love really feels like.
Women are left brokenhearted when they give their bodies in
exchange for love. Men are left defeated when they pour their hearts out to a
woman, only to find out that she has been using him the entire time. I am no
stranger to this vicious cycle of “he/she loves, he/she loves me not”. People
fall out of love just as easily as they fall into love. The value of love has
been cheapened by our lackluster requirement of its proof. I used to gauge love
based on the amount of gifts I would receive or how often someone uttered the
words. What I didn’t realize is that those things didn’t equate to love, but
only served as a representation of feelings. There was always a key factor
missing.
1 John 4:7-8 Beloved,
let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born
of God and knows God. Anyone who does
not love does not know God, because God is love.
If there is no God-factor present there can be no love.
Anything that comes to separate you from Christ is not done in the name of
love. God is love and without Him, there cannot be the existence of love. This
is not just about romantic relationships because we are taught to all love one
another. Get to the root of what love truly is so we can start expressing it to
one another. Love does not change because the origin of love is never-changing.
You cannot fall in or out of love with someone because love cannot disappear.
When we begin to understand what love truly means, there can
never be a “he/she loves me not” because love does not stop. There is no end or
beginning, you either love or you don’t. So stop plucking those flowers over a
love that never existed and start chasing real love. The real pursuit of
happiness is when you seek God. God is love and without Him there is no other.
It is in Him we live and breathe, hopeless to experience real love without Him.
With All My Love,
Mrs. Truscott
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