Genesis 29: 20 So Jacob worked seven years to pay for Rachel. But his love for her was so strong that it seemed to him but a few days.
Genesis 34: 2 But when the local prince, Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, saw Dinah, he seized her and raped her. 3 But then he fell in love with her, and he tried to win her affection with tender words. 4 He said to his father, Hamor, “Get me this young girl. I want to marry her.”
Exodus 15: 12 You raised your right hand, and the earth swallowed our enemies. 13 “With your unfailing love you lead the people you have redeemed. In your might, you guide them to your sacred home.
Song of Solomon 7: 6 Oh, how beautiful you are! How pleasing, my love, how full of delights! 7 You are slender like a palm tree,
and your breasts are like its clusters of fruit.
Song of Solomon 8: 6 Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as enduring as the grave. Love flashes like fire, the brightest kind of flame. 7 Many waters cannot quench love, nor can rivers drown it. If a man tried to buy love with all his wealth, his offer would be utterly scorned.
I think that no one can really understand the truth about love..
do we love someone because they are good to us? if so.. will we stop loving them if they are no longer good to us... wouldn't that be love based on someone's actions? of what value could that possibly be? we all don't do right all the time...
do we love someone based on physical attributes? they are beautiful.. they are good at sex.. they make us feel like we are beautiful.. they make us feel loved.. and what if they lose their looks.. or no longer make you feel so special? what value could that be as again.. it is based on someone else's actions...
God loved us no matter what we did.. He loves us when we do right.. and when we do wrong... but none of us are actually capable of loving as God loves...
I love a man... but not with my own love.. I love him with the love God has placed in my heart for him.. it was decision I made.. I chose to love him because of God.. and God caused the love to catch on fire... and continue.. regardless of attention given by him.. although I long for it.. it does not make me love him... regardless of what he does.. while I can say what I want him to do.. the truth is I will love him in spite of what he does... I love him endlessly...
this is only a small glimpse of the unending love that God has for us... yet somehow we are conditional in our love for God... I am determined that even more than I love this man.. I love God.. no matter what happens... because I have decided to love Him.. and while I hope for things to go a certain way.. I will love God in spite of my circumstances.. because my love is not based on what He does.. but instead it is based on who He is... I love Him eternally...
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