“Love” is perhaps over used and used incorrectly by proper English grammar. The grammatically correct rule is one loves people and likes things. But for all my life I have heard others use English incorrectly:
- I love my jacket
- I love to hike
- I love pizza
- I love doing crossword puzzles, etc.
As I was thinking of this word “Love” this morning, I began to think of an example of love that is very close to my heart. In 1975 I met a young lady who had gorgeous dark hair that flowed all the way down her back almost to her waistline. She had been a softball player and a cheerleader in high school and she was shaped in all the right places to catch a young 18 year old adolescent’s eyes. We met the very first day we stepped onto the college campus in Nyack, NY. Three weeks later I asked her out for our first date. I was so stinkin' scared that she would turn me down that I barely had the nerve to form the words with my cotton-dry mouth. What a rush when she replied, “I’d love to go see Gone with the Wind with you, Brent”. WoW!
I was certainly infatuated with her that day, but I did not love her…yet. In fact, I don’t know what day my love for her started, nor hers for me. However, 35 1/2 years later I am helplessly in love with that girl! She has changed a bit. Her hair is short now. Lady Clairol comes to visit with her every once in a while. She doesn’t play softball very well anymore…but my-oh- my, does she still cheer. And her favorite guy in the whole world to cheer is me! She whispers things to me, that are our secret! She knows when I am discouraged, tired, or frustrated, and she always seems to know what to say and do to brighten my day. She has served me so faithfully for over 3 decades of marriage. She has never complained about being the primary cook in the family. She has never complained that she does way more loads of laundry than I do. She has complained over the years that I leave my dirty socks on the floor occasionally. So, I try to get it right all the time now.
Susan will always stand out to me as the best example of ‘love’ that I have ever consistently seen in my life. I would hate to think of life without her companionship and friendship. She loves me and I love her.
This marriage relationship is the one God uses to describe His love for you, the “Church”. He loves us unconditionally and gave himself for us! He calls us to also love Him. As a man is called by God to be faithful to his wife and a wife to her husband, so God calls us to express our love for Him by living a life of PURITY.
God would love to have you express you love to him right now. Would you take a minute to tell Him how much you love him and renew your commitment to walk in the purity of that love today?
This is my Perspective. What is yours as you read 1 John 3:7-10?
Have a great day!
Brent
