With many recent happenings, it challenged my perspective of love such as the various situations that my friends had gone through, and even my own situation.
On Wednesday, I was heading off to dance lesson. That day, Grace had work so she headed directly from her workplace to the destination. My dad was unable to send me to dance due to work. Hence, I had to make my way to the destination myself.
It so happens that I forgot to bring my earpiece for my iPod! What to do?! No songs, no entertainment to keep me busy during the bus journey.
Then I thought, why not spend this time to talk to God? And I did so.
During the time of waiting for the bus to arrive to the entire bus journey to the dance studio, I was spending time talking to God.
Some people will be thinking "You crazy ah? Talking to God? How can you even talk to Him when you cannot even hear Him speak?"
Come on, try it, and you'll know it. ;D
Thus, I spent the entire journey talking to Him like a friend. Then I began to talk to Him about love. I shared with Him my every feelings and thoughts. I shared with Him the people I love and how important they are in my life. I shared with Him the turmoil that I had gone through.
He knew all these though.
Then I began to figure things out. As I reflected, I began to understand what love truly means.
I realised that love is sacrificial. If you truly love someone, you'll always, no matter what circumstance, put the person before you. The moment you put yourself before the person, that will not be called 'love'. To me, that will be called 'self-centeredness'. You love yourself more than others.
I realised that if you love someone, you'll care a lot about the well-being of that person. You will care about the person's health, work/studies, relationships with people, and even his/her walk with God.
I realised that love produces joy. With love, there will be joy. With hatred, there will be anger.
I don't get one part then. Everyone wants to be happy isn't it? Then why hate one another and be upset, when you can love one another and be happy? I know that it is not as simple as what I say, but seriously, why hate? Because of the pain the other person has inflicted upon you? Honestly, how long will you hate that person? Forever? Are you sure that you want to be FOREVER upset and never be joyful? I don't think so. Everyone wants to be happy. Therefore there's something called 'FORGIVENESS'. If you are able to forgive the other person, trust me, you'll see joy and gladness.
Forgiving someone is not easy though. That's why you'll need God to help you with this process.
I realised that LOVE is the most important aspect in my life. Love will be about building relationships with the people around me. Love will be about building my relationship with God. Love is God. Therefore God is my everything.
After talking with God, I felt very much refreshed and felt pretty good. I knew that God was listening and was speaking to me. He helped me to reflect on a lot of things. He helped me to understand why He made me go through so many tough times. I had cried, I had lamented, I had angered. God delivered me through those times.
The result? Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, gentleness, faithfulness and self-control.
Therefore, trust God. He will never fail you because LOVE NEVER FAILS. ;)
