Walking in Love

"The greatest thing you’ll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.”(i)

Hollywood stresses the importance of falling in love, but it fails to provide a proper example of what love is. The secular world view of love is insecure in that it has no foundation to build upon. In the world's eyes love can mean any number of things; it can be found in a committed relationship or sometimes just for the night. When love is based solely on romance and whimsical feelings, it fades with the change of emotions.

One of my favorite descriptions of love says: “Love never gives up. Love cares for others than for self. Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have…love puts up with anything, trusts God always, always kooks for the best, never looks back, but keeps going to the end.”(ii). That kind of love just described can only be experienced by modeling Christ’s example.

Hollywood tells us that we need to fall in love, but God tells us that we need walk in love. Walking in love means putting your needs aside for the other person. Do unto others as you would have them do to you.(iii) “It’s simple and yet it encompasses every facet of a relationship.”(iv) Showing someone you love them means walking out your life in love. Love is not just something we feel; it is so much more; it is imitating Christ’s perfect example.

John Keats said “I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections...” I am just as certain of nothing but the steadfast love of the Lord; a love that never looks back and keeps going to the end.

(i) Moulin Rouge
(ii) Paraphrase of 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
(iii) Luke 6:31
(iv) Boy Meets Girl-Joshua Harris

This is my favorite photo shoot from Teen Vogue...its from an old issue I got last year...