Monday, July 18, 2011

The Game Called Love

We were created to be relational beings. I will be turning 26 in a couple of months, and the question or thought I've had is, "Will I ever find love?" Cheesy, dorky, sappy, whatever you want to call it, but how many times have you ever asked it yourself? It use to be that two people who may have never met before find each other at a store or a common place. One of the two would strike up a conversation trying to find a common interest and then build a friendship/relationship around it, then continue to get to know each other then possibly finding love. Today we use the internet to find love, we try to find love by rekindling old flames (if you have to make something from nothing, probably a reason why there was nothing in the first place, hence re-kindle), we also settle a lot of the time. Being 25 has been one incredible year of learning. Yes, I am single and haven't found the rib that was taken from me yet, but I know she's out there.
  I have looked for love and come up empty, as most of us do or at least feel during this stage of our lives. Our friends are the ones getting engaged or married and here we are. A thought had crossed my mind today about love. And that is that what we are searching for called "love" isn't really what we are searching for in the first place. We search for security, protection, to feel wanted and appreciated, to feel worthy of someone's attention, we are looking for that emotional attachment.
  In coming to understand that, I would encourage because I've been encouraged to really look for LOVE. God is LOVE! If I'm searching for Love and looking for Love, then shouldn't I be searching and looking for God? If your answer is Yes, but... my next question is when did His love become not enough?
  We treat what we think we should call "love" like a game. Which game in particular? Marco Polo. We go around searching, Marco?! Marco?! Listening and looking with intent of someone to say POLO!!! Then we find them and discover that they aren't the last one, we date them and then break up with them. Again we go back to Marco?! Marco?! But see the objective of the game is to search after the last one, and most of the time patience runs out and we give up. Then the question pops back into our minds, will I ever find love.
  Matthew 7:7-8 "Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and the one who seeks finds, and to the one who knocks it will be opened."
  Matthew 6:33 "But seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you."

  If we are to truly seek after LOVE and search for it, then we will find ourselves seeking and searching after God. So, Ask (what is love), Seek (constantly pursuing), Knock (when you have found God) and it will be opened. If you have done this or when you will do this, no matter when you say Marco?! Marco?! God will always be the one to answer POLO!!!

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