If we spend so much time pursuing an Earthly Love, why do we not pursue in equal - greater - measure our Eternal Love? We should be pouring even more of ourselves into the Eternal.
Earthly Love will pass, but Eternal Love never leaves us.
We become easily disappointed in Earthly Love because it fails our expectations and hopes, it fails to give full return for all our labors.
But the Lord, our Eternal Lover, pours into us above and beyond the affection we could ever offer.
The more we love Him, the more love we can offer others, the more love we see around us.
If you are easily distracted by emotions, or by romantic entanglements, or if you often find yourself in an obsession where one person is on your mind always, where your life is calibrated to focus on them - my challenge to you is to step back and compare the time you spend loving them, and the time you spend focusing on loving God. There is nothing wrong with loving people, but we know when our love is selfish or imbalanced. We know. Emotions are beautiful, but it's healthy to harness them and work through/toward them WITH God, not instead of God.
That's my challenge. To just think, really think. Pray. And if you find an imbalance, find a way back to balance. Put the priorities in place and God has blessings in store for you. He wants to make you so happy and so fulfilled you won't know what to do with yourself.
I need to work on balance
