Why Do We Love?

Earlier today I was thinking that I hadn't blogged in a few days and was trying to come up with something to say. Knowing good and well it never works for me that way. My blog posts come to me at random times and are generally the culmination of many events that prompt me to think about something. This put me in a dilemma today because I really wanted to write.

This evening it came to me.

As I look at some of the people in my life and decisions they make I wonder why we choose to love certain people. Why do we choose to love those that reject us? We do we choose to love those that emotionally or physically abuse us? We reject those that love us; we reject those that treat us well. Why is this? Why do we often choose a path that isn't going to bring us happiness, and ultimately bring us heartache and failure?

Emotions are fragile. Love is a house, love is protection, love is selflessness and devotion. Love means having mercy and faith. Love doesn't see physical characteristics, love sees the heart of someone. Mature love is a gift of God. Some people search their whole lives for this type of love. We search for it in someone who we are physically attracted too, we search for it in those that don't treat us the way we should be treated and often times we search for it in all the wrong places.

I know that for me, I want to fall in love with a man who is so deeply in love with Jesus, that that is all I see when I look at him and that is all others see when they look at him. I only want to get married if I can better serve God with someone else rather than by myself. This outlook I have arrived at is a far cry from where I've been. But I'm at a point in my life where I couldn't imagine marrying anyone for any other reason than this.

I too have been in a position where I cared about someone who didn't care for me, who didn't treat me right and didn't love Jesus. I have been that person that rejected someone who cared about me and would have treated me with the utmost care and would have been a good leader. I think at some point in our lives we all do this.

I had a conversation with a friend this morning and he said he had been thinking about something. What he told me ties in perfectly with this blog. I can't repeat verbatim what he said but the gist of it was that the way we love others when they reject us is exactly how Jesus loves us. How many times have we rejected Him, yet he still seeks us? How often we do abuse His name, yet he still loves us.

Jesus loves us enough that when we seek him first he gives us the desires of our heart. There is no confusion, no chasing, no questions and no doubt. When we let Jesus lead our paths he will bring us exactly where he wants us. If we run after Jesus and seek him and love him like he loves us I know the blessings he has for us will far surpass anything we could ever pray for.