Love is a Strange Animal

You have seen your share of strange attraction. You see the adoration someone has for something that looks so very strange! What on earth do they see in each other? Is it Love? How can you “love” something like that!??! Of course, love is in the eye of the beholder! There! That explains it all…

And this is the remarkableness of love I write about.  Love goes both ways, equally supporting the other. Too often we see love as a physical attraction… But as I learned in church youth camp by Rev Elzine Strong:

• “Beauty is on the skin, ugly is to the bone…
  Beauty fades away, but ugly stays on!”
• “Your teeth shine like the stars! They come out only at night!”

I believe true love is found even when our physical self repels. True love comes from that inside person that shines forth regardless of looks.  Perhaps true love comes from the heart and pays no attention to our “ugliness”.

True love trumps our own failings.  We may have holes in our character, but love fills in the blanks. Love even ignores what everyone else sees, whether it’s the “good, bad, or downright ugly”!

Here’s My Thought Today

The Apostle Paul, the one who stands above in his love for the church, many times wrote to his followers about the power of love. From his “Love Chapter” (1 Corinthians 13), or to the church in Philippi, he helps us with understanding this concept. We need to fill ourselves with “true” love, whether teaching, exampling, or doing.

Finally, brethren,
whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest,
whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure,
whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report;
if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise,
think on these things.
Those things, which ye have both learned, and received, and heard, and seen in me,
do: and the God of peace shall be with you.
(Philippians 4:8-9 KJV)

God help all of us love truly … Just like He loved us.