{"id":5787,"date":"2020-07-23T17:13:29","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T23:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrationministries.com\/?p=5787"},"modified":"2021-03-23T17:34:46","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T23:34:46","slug":"looking-for-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrationministries.com\/2020\/07\/23\/looking-for-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking For Love"},"content":{"rendered":"
People everywhere are looking for love. They run, they walk, they look desperately in all the wrong places, they don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing, and if they did they wouldn\u2019t like it. They wouldn\u2019t agree with it. Their opinions would hate it.<\/p>\n
But inside, the emptiness, the loneliness, the hurt, many of them with wounds in their hearts, steadily bleeding, and their life\u2019s blood running out running out, unconsciously they\u2019re looking for love. They\u2019re looking for healing, on some level buried underneath too much hard living, they\u2019re looking. In them there is an ignored awareness, there is a radar beep, even a voice, that says look for love.<\/p>\n
Many have not had any love in their lives; they were born into adverse circumstances or they were born into good circumstances but without love. Many knew loved ones until life or bad choices took them down a different path, down a road of destruction and violence and hatred and rebellion.<\/p>\n
Others innocently were led into darkness. And too many others were seduced, were abused, and were broken even at an early age. Violence surrounded them, violence battered them, violence drove them until they hated even as they were hated. And so hate and rebellion became a way of life.<\/p>\n
Then they were known as hard and harsh, they were known as evil and in some cases they were evil. And the people around them never suspected that they were driven violently and without mercy into their current condition. And so because of that they receive no compassion, no one looks for them, they are rejected on every hand except for their like kind \u2014 those ones who are simply much like they are, hard, coarse, unfeeling, filled with bitterness, rebellion, hatred and even murderous intent.<\/p>\n
And part of what drives them is vengeance and a deep seated resolve to make someone pay, anyone, for what happened to them. So life becomes hurt or be hurt, abuse or be abused, kill or be killed, but above all make someone, anyone, pay. Love becomes a totally unknown, unsought for, and undesired foreign element.<\/p>\n
But deep deep deep buried beneath all those things is the desperate need for love. Because the Creator created them for love. And though they do not believe it, and no one around them believes it, and literally most of the time no one cares, they were created for love. And so in their DNA they were created to look for it. Looking for love. And the truth is, though this truth is not always known in many cultures or many lands or even many families, love is looking for them.<\/p>\n
And so as the love of God blooms in His people, the people who found love and reached for it and accepted it and grasped it and held onto it and were changed by it and then even begin to release it, these people allow love to draw them, direct them, and lead them to those ones that even no one who knows love wants. Because those who know love but are turned off by the harsh, the violent, even the criminal, they avoid them, they avoid the angry, the unlovely, the dark, the dirty, the abusive, the dangerous, they avoid them.<\/p>\n
And so high walls separate the ones who know love from the ones who don\u2019t, and sometimes these walls were erected by the ones who know love, when they are the very ones who should know that there should be no walls. In fact, Love should be aggressive, the ones who know love should be looking for the ones who don\u2019t know love, because they have what is needed so desperately.<\/p>\n
Love and wisdom should allow that gentle voice of God to lead one on journeys to find those who are looking for love. And to know in that wisdom, that many who are looking for love don\u2019t know that they are, and reject the very idea. They reject, sometimes even violently, those who are bringing what they so desperately need.<\/p>\n