The Wine We Drink

I believe our whole lives can be spent searching for what love may be. We complicate, distort, and misuse its meaning often.  We look for it through feelings, affection, lust, and pleasure. We see it as a gift to receive; a gift that comes to us and stays there. We see other couples and assume that the way they are in public is perfect and that's how they always are. We compare relationships and always want someone 'better'. We easily forget the definition in 1 Corinthians 13, and sometimes separate it from the Love we see in our walk with Christ. 

Let's take this point of view that we all know we have seen at times, and let's set it aside for a moment and look through a different pair of glasses.....

I once heard a story of two children that wanted to give their Mother breakfast in bed on Mothers Day.

They woke up early and prepared her a bowl of cereal and other treats. The younger of the two, with most enthusiasm, poured a tall glass of grape juice to the rim. They placed all the elements onto a tray and began the journey from the kitchen counter, down the hall, and up the white carpeted stairs, to their parents' bedroom. Prior to this morning, they had been told by Mom to ''please take your shoes off of the stairs  and put them away!''... Forgetting about this order, they eagerly ran up the stairs to deliver the breakfast when "oops!" A foot tripped, a glass of grape juice flew, and the white carpet was stained red.

If you think that Love is spotless... You're 100% wrong.

I believe that when we accept Psalm 103:14, that we are dust, it becomes a lot easier to love without wanting love from man in return. We need to remember that it's impossible to love someone if we are wanting to receive from them. Do you think that when Christ was on the cross, sacrificing his body for us, he was thinking, "Man, they better love me back or I'm not gonna love them anymore..."? No way! He died because He had passion for His father, and His father had You and I on His heart. 

Let love win.