It has been very busy for me last week so I went on a sort of hiatus from blogging. Now, recovering from all that Valentine’s Day mania, I have a lot of things to write about.
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Yesterday, during the service, the Pastor discussed about how love can be blind. He went on preaching about one’s feelings when in love:
- you seem oblivious to other people around you
- you seem to float in Cloud 9
- you seem content just being with the one you love
- you feel very happy and ecstatic
- you usually have a smile on your face that can’t be wiped away
- you seem to think that everything about the person you love is perfect
- and a lot more 🙂 well, we all know how it feels to be in love 🙂
Given the “symptoms” above, we can say that when we’re in love, we have this certain shield on our eyes – putting everything in bright colors. When we’re in love, we can only see what we want to see and usually refuse what others have to say about the person we love. Maybe that’s why they say “Love is blind” because when you’re so into it, you’re just so immersed with that person that you only see them the way you want to see them – up on that pedestal. But, how long would this “love is blind” thing last? How long can you overlook that person’s flaws and imperfections? How long can you stay by their side given their weaknesses?
When we are blinded by love, how long would it take before we wake up from that stupor? I’m not being cynical here or something. I’m just thinking, when we love someone so much, we are willing to forego a lot of things as long as we get to keep them. But a time comes when even if we’ve held on so tightly, that someone lost the passion and doesn’t want to be kept by us anymore. The same goes vice-versa. There are times that we’re loved by someone but that someone reaches a point that he/she can no longer take it and would very much love if we go on separate ways.
When we are willing to overlook weaknesses and accept them because we love someone, how long can we keep going that way? I’ve seen couples so in love, believing that they can accept their other half for whatever they are but after a few years end up in separation. I think the answer to my question is this: when you know that you have an unlimited supply of love to give, you can go on forever loving someone despite their flaws and really accept them for who they are.
Where can we get an unlimited supply of love? Where else but from the ultimate source of all love, God. As it is written “Whoever does not love does not know God, for God is love” 1 John 4:8 NIV. If we have that relationship and understanding about God and how He loves us, then we can surely love another in God’s way. He is the source of our love and we have this ability to love because He loved us first as stated in the Bible: “We love because He first loved us” 1 John 4:19
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I honestly believe that love can really be blind. I can attest to that. Nobody’s perfect and even I have issues with my husband (I know it goes the same way for him about me) and we would always argue and fight. I would always harbor ill-feelings for a time and would not speak to him. I would sometimes grow weary and tell him that it’s tiring to love someone like him. Imagine saying that to your husband without him leaving your side permanently! Well, of course, all those statements were very spur of the moment and were uttered out of very strong emotions. But after each fight, we would make peace and forget about what happened. I am lucky because my husband’s love for me is blind. He’s willing to overlook my temper and my hurtful words because he knows that I don’t mean them; because he knows that deep down, I love him and that I was saying those words because I was hurt. He knows that behind all that is a loving wife who just wants a better marriage. He knows that God is the center of our marriage so he can let go of my tantrums. The same thing goes for me. I may be irritated and annoyed to the highest level but I never hated him for all the things we fought about. I gloated, yes, but I never hated my husband no have I been angry enough to ask him to leave the house for good. Yes we always fight and bicker but we both know that we have God as source of our love and we will always be willing to overlook each other’s offense because of that fact. God loved us despite our flaws – that’s the one thing we always keep in mind. It’s this fact that we’re trying to emulate in our marriage – to love each other like the way God loves us despite our sins.
Therefore, I can say that God’s love is blind. He is the perfect example of a lover who’s so in love, He will overlook your sins and even send His Son over to save us from death.
“But God demonstrates His own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us”
Romans 5:8 NIV.
Yes, love is indeed blind and I thank God for that!
- Your Love Is… (momentswithabba.wordpress.com)
- God’s Love (projectphotizo.wordpress.com)
- Loving Through the Eyes of God (pastorsusantftd.wordpress.com)
- God’s Love For Us (ptl2010.com)
- Filling Your Love Tank (redeemedandredirected.com)
- Valentine’s Day: God’s love for His own (wordsofgrace.wordpress.com)
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