Hello everyone! I hope you are all enjoying your Sunday as much as I am.
Something has really been on my heart over the past few days that I felt the Lord directing me to talk about in my blog. I have been reading a book called "When God Writes your Love Story"written by Eric & Leslie Ludy. I have still not finished it because I have been taking it really slow and just thinking about a lot of the content in the book. So far, I have really been receiving from the book spiritually. It basically talks about how God has written a unique and beautiful love story for each and every one of us. I believe this with all my heart and I just felt led to start sort of a short series of posts on God's view of a romance. This romance begins with Him and spreads throughout our entire being even before we meet our future spouse. It starts from even before we were born and continues throughout our lives.
I am truly a romantic in the sense that I love to read poems about love, watch romantic movies, and get flowers from my boyfriend. However, I have noticed that romance these days is no longer viewed through the right lens. It has gone so far to become impure and many men and women in our generation today feel it is even unachievable. It is so difficult to watch a romantic movie these days and see the pure side of romance. I was with a few girls last night in my dorm and we were watching one of the most popular romantic movies: The Notebook. Now, I love that movie and I love Nicholas Sparks as a writer. I think he does a great job of putting love stories together and moving me with his fiction. However, after watching the movie, I felt a weird feeling within myself that I hadn't felt before after I had watched it in the past. I knew what it was. The story line is beautifully written and the love between the two main characters is evident. It was the portrayal of their love that bothered me though. The characters almost seemed to have only a physical relationship. You could tell their love was deep, but it only seemed to manifest the most in physical affection for each other. All the girls in the room agreed with my opinion and stated that they felt that it would be much sweeter if the couple were actually married before all that intense stuff had happened.
I wanted to start off this little series of posts by talking about the pure side of romance that we evidence from our Creator. He gave everything, poured out His whole life, to make us daughters and sons and to make us right-standing with Him. I honestly think that is the true face of love. Even before this took place He knew us intricately. One of my favorite passages is Psalm 139:13-16 which says, "For you did form my inward part; You did knit me together in my mother's womb. I will confess and praise You for You are fearful and wonderful and for the awful wonder of my birth! Wonderful are Your works, and that my inner self knows right well. My frame was not hidden from You when I was being formed in secret intricately and curiously wrought in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance, and in Your book all the days of my life were written before ever they took shape, when as yet there was none of them." This is an awesome picture of how precious we are to God. He knew us before we were born and He loved us before anyone loved us. I like to think that since He was the first one to love me He was the first one I truly had a relationship with. This is the beginning of a love story God starts with every one of His children and it continues through all of life. I encourage anyone who needs to see a real picture of God's thoughts towards His children to read all of Psalm 139. It gives a great picture of how much He truly thinks about us.
John 3:16 is a verse that everyone knows well, but if you take the time to look at it and really meditate on it you see that after over 2,000 years ago God sent His precious son Jesus down to make us clean. This was truly so that we could have a relationship with Him. The purpose of His death and resurrection was love. A personal relationship is all that God truly wants with His people. He wants us to know Him and walk with Him everyday. To me, this is the basis of a romantic relationship. We learn the core of this from Jesus. Romans 8:38-39 says, "For I am persuaded beyond doubt that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities, nor things impending and threatening nor things to come, nor powers, Nor height nor depth, nor any thing else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."This means no matter what it is you have done, will ever do, or whatever you go through, nothing can separate you from the love God has for you. That's how powerful that love is. It goes beyond mere human love and transcends into something supernatural.
The love that God has for us should be the basis of every relationship we have with our family and friends. I started out talking about God's love since it is the purest form of love that we are to replicate in our own lives. I want to specifically address romantic relationships with the opposite sex in the next couple of weeks. I wanted to talk about God's love first though since His love interweaves through us and moves into these romantic relationships with the opposite sex. Romance can be pure when it is led by God and those in the relationship are looking at Him for constant guidance. Any Godly relationship with family or friends that is founded on His love will last forever since that love is unbreakable.
I believe that God leads us by His love and will never force us into anything which is why He won't make you obey Him. He lets you choose whether or not you will accept Him. If this speaks to you at any level I encourage you to seek God for yourself and come to know the love He has for you. Accept Him as your Lord and Savior and experience this love for yourself. It will be the start of the greatest romance you will ever experience!
I hope you all have a great rest of your weekend! Thanks for reading!
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