The Love of My Life

We spend our lives searching for or thinking we have that one great love. We have a favorite this or that. We long to be the favorite this or that. For awhile our greatest love is our parents/parent. Then as we get older, we believe a girlfriend or boyfriend is that all consuming love we think we can't live without. One day we get married to the person who we think is the absolute love of our lives. Then that thought is shattered when we have a child and realize we can't possible love anyone or thing more.

If life is the pursuit and/or transition from one object of love to the next, why isn't life perfect? God is love..right? God is perfect...right? Yes - God is love and is perfect. Somewhere along the way, we thought love would be found in this life that was perfect. Someone has made our heart race, taken away our appetites, and made sleep a non-event. That love has also ended, at times, in disappointment, heartache, frustration, tears.

We keep looking to other humans to be the lover of our souls. God created us to love HIM and to be loved by HIM. We get the love part; we just don't fully and literally realize the HIM part. The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit love us, protect us, and save us like nothing even Nicholas Sparks or Karen Kingsbury could capture. Our love story of saving grace is the most powerful and beautiful thing on the planet. Everyone wants love. You show me someone negative, and I'll show you someone who got unloved, underloved, or misloved (new word).

There is the great romance. There is the moment when you can't breathe. There is someone who is not only willing to die for you, but who did. There is someone who will never leave you or never hurt you. That person is Jesus Christ. We can't be loved by anyone on earth like Jesus loves us. There is such a thing as your soul mate...but it's not your spouse. It is your savior. The love of Christ is beyond this earth. It is the purpose of your creation and my creation.

Stop expecting someone to love you as the Savior does. Stop pretending you love someone that much. Let Christ love you and love through you. Forget Edward and Jacob. I'll take Jesus everyday!