A story is told of a man who lost everything and on every front. His was the kind of loss we all pray we never get to experience. From the love of his wife to the wealth that he had once prided in accumulating, even the warmth of friends perished in that time. When you think of a man whose children have died, a husband whose wife’s love and adoration has been replaced with despise, a businessman whose every investment has vanished, we think of this man though not completely.
Losing as we know it is not an experience worth looking forward to, in our life time, however short that may be, we encounter situations and moments when what we have held so dear is now distant and never to be attained. When we lose the company of our peers or an opportunity that may have propelled us to the next great level, we get a taste of the undesired.
The heart can be deprived and it will learn to leave in the deprivation, but to rob it is indeed to torment it to no end. Our days are short however many they may be, so when we meet that which satisfies our hearts and souls we are greatly attached to it, when we find and oasis of comfort in a world of unease we want to own it. But such is the challenge of the heart that while it can be touched, it cannot hold. While we may have desires granted, we are not sure that we shall hold on to the satisfaction for long, to know the love of another human, to experience the presence of such comfort that comes with it is indeed priceless. We may be doomed to spend a lifetime searching or to be content with the little that we have, but to experience that satisfaction that comes with such a love is indeed priceless. I have once met with such love.
Yet persuasive as it may appear such love is not always sure love. To invest our lives in the satisfaction that comes with love of humans or the security of things is to set the standard for satisfaction way to low.
There is a love that will stay, that waits and longs for us. That love is deeper and greater than all the human love, its satisfaction endures far greater than that of all the humans alive. For some reason we all see shades of that love in the people of this time and world, and some times, our hearts experience the satisfaction that it comes within the things of life, though not in its fullness.
I have been fooled once to pursue a satisfaction that demanded me to abandon myself, or so I was willing to do. But even though I would want that satisfaction again, I have learnt that nothing is more precious than the love of God. His is a love that has stayed, that has watched me in my downward movements and yet stayed and loved on, but most importantly, His is the only love that I can be sure to stay and give long after I have grown weary, I can count on His love and the satisfaction that comes with it.
Even though I will still long and wait for the human love, I will always know that the strength and passion of the love of God, is greater than the billions of love in the whole wide world. And as we think of the man that lost all he loved and owned, we should remember that he never lost the love of his creator and for that reason, even though it seemed like he really lost, in reality, in his time of loss was the certainty of the replacement and the continuation of that sure love and loving. And if you must know, everything he lost was replaced.
The best love we can give is the love that we have learnt and received from the greatest love of them all. When open our lives to be loved by the greatest love, we set ourselves in a better position to love those that may later walk into our lives. I have witnessed both a great fall and the greatest Love, and the greatest love still prevailed. If you ask me, nothing is worth it if we are firstly going to lose the love of God. And love is greater than right and wrong
Losing as we know it is not an experience worth looking forward to, in our life time, however short that may be, we encounter situations and moments when what we have held so dear is now distant and never to be attained. When we lose the company of our peers or an opportunity that may have propelled us to the next great level, we get a taste of the undesired.
The heart can be deprived and it will learn to leave in the deprivation, but to rob it is indeed to torment it to no end. Our days are short however many they may be, so when we meet that which satisfies our hearts and souls we are greatly attached to it, when we find and oasis of comfort in a world of unease we want to own it. But such is the challenge of the heart that while it can be touched, it cannot hold. While we may have desires granted, we are not sure that we shall hold on to the satisfaction for long, to know the love of another human, to experience the presence of such comfort that comes with it is indeed priceless. We may be doomed to spend a lifetime searching or to be content with the little that we have, but to experience that satisfaction that comes with such a love is indeed priceless. I have once met with such love.
Yet persuasive as it may appear such love is not always sure love. To invest our lives in the satisfaction that comes with love of humans or the security of things is to set the standard for satisfaction way to low.
There is a love that will stay, that waits and longs for us. That love is deeper and greater than all the human love, its satisfaction endures far greater than that of all the humans alive. For some reason we all see shades of that love in the people of this time and world, and some times, our hearts experience the satisfaction that it comes within the things of life, though not in its fullness.
I have been fooled once to pursue a satisfaction that demanded me to abandon myself, or so I was willing to do. But even though I would want that satisfaction again, I have learnt that nothing is more precious than the love of God. His is a love that has stayed, that has watched me in my downward movements and yet stayed and loved on, but most importantly, His is the only love that I can be sure to stay and give long after I have grown weary, I can count on His love and the satisfaction that comes with it.
Even though I will still long and wait for the human love, I will always know that the strength and passion of the love of God, is greater than the billions of love in the whole wide world. And as we think of the man that lost all he loved and owned, we should remember that he never lost the love of his creator and for that reason, even though it seemed like he really lost, in reality, in his time of loss was the certainty of the replacement and the continuation of that sure love and loving. And if you must know, everything he lost was replaced.
The best love we can give is the love that we have learnt and received from the greatest love of them all. When open our lives to be loved by the greatest love, we set ourselves in a better position to love those that may later walk into our lives. I have witnessed both a great fall and the greatest Love, and the greatest love still prevailed. If you ask me, nothing is worth it if we are firstly going to lose the love of God. And love is greater than right and wrong
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