Unfortunately, Not everyone can pinpoint what exactly it is they want. Some people think it's money and they strive for it, spend it, save it, waste it, use it.. eventually they find out it's not money that they want.
Some people think it's romantic relationships with other people. They chase after them, move from one to another, get their hearts broken, break other people's hearts, give away their bodies and exhaust their emotions... eventually they find out it's not romantic relationships that they want.
Some people think it's time. They fill it, they waste it, they use it, they let it go by, they make plans, they try to use it cure broken hearts, get over disappointments, and for letting bitterness and brokenness fester. Eventually they find out no matter how much time goes by, it's not something that satisfies.
And then there are those who give up finding what it is their hearts desire and start filling their emptiness with drinking, partying, living vicariously through movies, smoking, eating, and harming their bodies.
They are empty. They want something, they don't know what it is... but they want it.
So what is it? Of course everyone says in unison, "Love. Everyone is just seeking to be loved."
I think that word is over-used. Sure everyone wants love. That's why they enter into relationship after relationship. And then, after they get into the relationship, they want to be valued. When they are valued they want to be served. When they are served they want to be spoiled. When they are spoiled they want everyone and their mother to cater to their every wish.
Everyone wants love? Well, yes, but people don't know what love is when they say that's what they want. They still have no clue. That's why they look for it all over the place.
So imagine that someone puts you in a room you've never been in before, it's big and has a lot of obstacles big and small. You don't know what or where the obstacles are because you were blindfolded prior to being lead into the room. Now this person tells you to look for an object and gives a vague description of it. You've never heard of this object before but it sounds really nice so you're going to look for it because you really want it. You cant see, so you trip a lot over the obstacles and it brings a lot of pain and bruises. Feeling things with your hands doesn't help much and so you end up smelling, tasting and listening to lots of different things but you still don't know what the heck it is you're looking for and you feel nasty after trying so many different things. Doesn't really sound like very much fun, does it?
You can't really find something when you don't know what it looks like, what it feels like, what is sounds like, what it tastes like and what it smells like. So how can people say they are looking for love?
The world is broken. The world brings difficult moments. The world lacks love.
So why the depressing post? Because, today I had a moment. Brief and precious. A taste of something sweet. I've known for a long time about the emptiness and the pain and the sorrow and the heart-wrenching events that the world encounters, but what if... what if... there was a cure? What if there was a place where pain did not exist? What if there wasn't death? What if there was someone who was in love with you and would never ever ever break your heart. More than that, they would never hurt you, they would never be impatient with you, they would never get sick of you. What if there was a such thing as a perfect relationship? What if there was a place where you were always safe and never experienced being insecure? A place that was never cold, never cloudy, never sad. It sounds so beautiful.
Today, for the briefest, sweetest, shortest amount of time... I got a glimpse of such a place. I can't describe it really. It happened whilst I was driving home after a long morning. I was listening to a song and Jesus, spoke to me in it. For a very brief moment I was standing in a garden with Jesus. It was beautiful and peaceful and I was completely unaware of any pain, stress, sadness or darkness. My heart was overwhelmed with Love and I told Jesus, "I just want to be with you forever. I never want to leave." He smiled at me and then it was gone. I was aware of myself back in my car again, of course I still felt Jesus with me, not as strong as before, but he was still with me.
But that moment made me long for Jesus. Made me long for eternity. I want to be with Jesus. I want that perfection.
Yknow what people want? They want God. They want God because God is Love. Everyone in their heart of hearts whether they admit to it or not desires God. They run from that fact and fill themselves with other things and they know the other things leave them empty. They know they're in pain, they know what it is to be lonely, they know they're broken. They know so much... and so little. They don't know that the sooner they let go and let God, the better their life will be. God came to give life and life to the full. And so,
" Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.
This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
We love because he first loved us. Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen."
Listen to this song.
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