I found out this week that this show has been cancelled. If I'm honest, this makes me happy ha!
But, that isn't the point of PART 2. So, we shall move on.
I had a post for you guys, but I think I'd much rather you read this. This pretty much blows anything I could write out of the water:
Rich and Christy's story - excerpt from 'Boy Meets Girl' by Joshua Harris
After you read this, try thinking about what love really is.
In one of my favorite movies called Anchor Man (if you haven't seen it do it right now), in a hysterical scene a character named Brick names off things in an office that he loves. "I love lamp." THAT is the famous quote I use almost too much.
Hopefully without ruining the comedy of the movie, I think that is how we often approach love. It's objectified. We don't take the time to really experience true, romantic, engaging to the core love; instead, we settle for the simple lamp type of love that is fleeting and selfishly motivated, and in the end doesn't mean what we are saying. It wasn't designed that way, but in our sinfulness we have made it that way. Not always, but I have seen this pattern often.
So, should we pursue the "I love lamp" kind of love, or should we pursue the "I will do anything and everything to serve you for the rest of our lives" kind of love? I'm gonna say the second one.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Sean, you really should blog more often! This was a great reminder that our timing is not always God's timing but his timing is the perfect timing. In a sermon I listened to the pastor said that while we wait for God's timing and that person, we should be striving to become the person, the person we are looking for is looking for. This has really struck a cord with me and in becoming this person we should be learning and practicing what it is to love as described in 1 Corinthians 13: 4-7.
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