... so I read on a t-shirt for sale in a high street fashion store today. That sure got me thinking!
We are created by Love for love. We are by nature social creatures, needing interaction and relationship with others around us. Without love, we can't function fully in this world - one need only reflect on the horrors witnessed in the Romanian orphanages or the so-called 'dying rooms' of China - babies and children caged in cots, driven insane by a lack of human interaction and love.
However, even in the material world, where we may experience human love in its various aspects, many of us never get to know the higher love - that by which we were created and which would, if we allowed it, flow through us and fill every part of our lives and touch the lives of others whom we encounter.
That's the unselfish, all-giving, sacrificial love - love which just 'is' and allows us to just 'be' - the kind of love which gives for its own sake, rather than out of calculated human reasoning - the kind of love which doesn't count the cost and doesn't give up in the face of opposition.
That kind of love reaches beyond this plane of existence.
So yes, I can happily request that you love me till my heart stops.
But my prayer is that God will love me beyond that - so I can love totally freely - He can love me to death and into eternity!
"Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot wash it away. If one were to give all the wealth of his house for love, it would be utterly scorned." Song of Solomon 8:6-7
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