Peace of Love
We’ve watched the classic movie scenes and read best seller dialogs. We’ve listened to the hit songs and generally experienced many of the classic descriptors which attempt to define for us what; love is! The inadequacy of course hides among the elusive fact that there are as many different kinds of love as there are people experiencing or sharing it. I’m not even including the; prides of possession, joys of prevailing, idolizations or delights of the physical, I’m simply focusing on individual, emotional love. The bottom line is that love makes others feel treasured. To be, have been or become the treasure of another’s heart completes us. We all seek love and our capacity to love is sought by others. When we lose a love, our memories exhibit an edited, heightened presentation of the treasures we’ve lost. Our ability to reciprocate on what we’ve locked away becomes handicapped. Our emotional state destabilizes and our world sways. Still for nearly everyone there is, at some point, a little puzzle piece missing from this beautiful landscape called love which we’ve built around our hearts. What we can’t grasp is that we really can not lose love. Love is a flowing offer, given freely, with no expectations. Certainly we can stop the flow, but however much was once given (not leant) is simply not refundable. Water under the bridge so-to-speak, so why does it seem like there’s a piece or two missing from our beautiful landscapes of secure love?
We are not perfect, so what comes both from and to us are in essence the products of our imperfect lives. There is one single exception, a treasure of such value to those who’ve found it, that it’s nearly incomprehensible, why so many others have never even bothered to search for it. This treasure is perfect, simply because it is offered by the only perfect one. “Can any of you prove me guilty of sin? If I am telling the truth, why don’t you believe me?” (John 8:46 NIV). No one else has ever been able to offer this challenge and pass the test. “If you keep my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commands and remain in his love.” (John 15:10 NIV). Perfect love, offered for an imperfect life, is our perfect treasure. There is no way to ever lose this love, if we keep His commands. The smartest among us don’t make promises which we can’t keep and no one anywhere can keep promises that they don’t make. Jesus has yet to ever break a promise that He’s made, so on His shoulders alone can we safely lay our expectations. This is the missing “peace” of love which so many may never find.
JC Calkins with COMMON SENSE 4 UNCOMMON PEOPLE Like this? Search “4 Natural Reflections” on Facebook, hit “like” in the left margin and share with the friends you love.
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