About Love

Question:



I'm in love with someone who doesn't feel the same way about me anymore. I pray for God to take these feelings away, but every single day I'm hurt and disappointed. Its an endless cycle. If God loves me so much, why does He allow me to suffer through all of this?



Answer:



I can definitely understand the feeling of frustration and the confusion in putting these two together. What’s important to understand is that there is a difference between the love that people give to others and the love that our Father gives to us. The thing about people is that even those with the best intentions let us down. This person probably had strong feelings for you at one point and then decided going a different way. The reason people do this is because we honestly don’t know what we want. Because of that we tend to go on our feelings very easily. On a good day the world is bright and chipper and bad days it seems really gray and almost hopeless.



What we need to remember is that God does not love us like this. Isaiah 55:9 says, “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways.” His love for us is not a love that tells you “I love you” one day and then lets you down. Romans 5:8 says, “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” This is where it starts. He proved His love by sending Jesus to save us from separation from Him, and so that we could know Him to the fullest and enjoy Him. John 17:3 says that eternal life is knowing the Lord and Jesus, the One the Father sent, and if you look at 1 John 4:8, you’ll see that God IS Love. To experience the Father is to experience His love.



It’s not His desire that you think and feel that any human love you feel in a relationship is how He loves you. As a matter of fact, He wants you to experience His Love so much that it pours out into every area of your life. The way that He does that is not by taking away desires that we have. He made you to want to be loved and to respond. He pours out His love and works in our hearts by our responding to Him and turning to Him. We have to accept what He says as true and confidently trust Him to give freely to us because He is our Father and He made us His children because of Jesus (Luke 11:9-11). When we submit ourselves to Him, He sets us free from the power of whatever it was that was holding us apart from Him. (2Corinthians 3:17)

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