True Love

 

I have always wondered when I was a child, like,

What is True Love?

How will it be?

How will I know it's true love? 

And so on...whenever someone speaks about true love, I'll be musing within me. I have always thought finding a partner is like finding true love. This thought was deep within me, and I was convinced it was the case. I was so foolish in this regard that I didn't even think of Christ when I was musing about true love. One day, while reading the Bible, the verse "Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it" (Song of Solomon 8:7 KJV) caught my attention. I began to wonder whether it is possible to find a love that cannot be quenched? I couldn't think it's possible to find such love in this world.

I began to ponder these thoughts about finding love that cannot be quenched, that doesn't change with any scenario. Then I remembered that "God is love" (1 John 4:8), I began to search the bible how God loves us. And I came across different sides of God's loving nature.

FATHER

• A father of the fatherless (Psalm 68:5). 
• Your father knows exactly what you need even before you ask him (Matthew 6:8)
• So, you have not received a spirit that makes you fearful slaves. Instead, you received God's Spirit when he adopted you as his own children. Now we call him, 'Abba, Father' (Romans 8:15)
• I will be a father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. (2 Corinthians 6:18)
• See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God (1 John 3:1)

MOTHER

• As a mother comforts her child, so I'll comfort you (Isaiah 66:13)
• Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! (Isaiah 49:15)

FRIEND

• You are my friends if you do what I command you (John 15:14)
• I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you (John 15:15)
• The lord would speak to Moses face to face, as one speaks to a friend. (Exodus 33:11)

HUSBAND

• For your Maker is your husband - the Lord of hosts is his name (Isaiah 54:5)
• In that day, declares the Lord, "you will call me 'my husband', you will no longer call me 'my master'. (Hosea 2:16)

I was very much amazed when I came across these verses. God's love is so amazing that He comforts me like a mother when I am sad, He guides me as a father when I am hopeless, He is my friend to whom I can share everything, and even more, He also loves me with a jealous love of a husband.

Can anyone find all this love in one person?  I don't think so. 

Only God can show and give us his true love, and no one else can. 

What a loving God we have!!!!!

You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you

- St Augustine