Blind to Love

After contemplating this list of scriptures that describes how God thinks and sees us; like...

Jeremiah 31:3

The Lord has appeared [a]of old to me, saying:
“Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love;
Therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you

or

Zephaniah 3:17

The Lord your God in your midst, The Mighty One, will save;
He will rejoice over you with gladness, He will quiet you with His love,
He will rejoice over you with singing

and

Psalms 139:14

I will praise You, for [a]I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Marvelous are Your works,
And that my soul knows very well.

Just to name a few, but also appealing to the hungry heart that the Bible is filled with the Love and wonderful promises of God, for a great future, plans to make one prosper, oaths of peace, covenants of presence and so on...

Then considering what all those words says about me and you; I could not avoid feeling compelled to ask myself the question. Have we lost our ability to Love? Or Have we become blind to it? Surely, the not so long past, has always preached on love being blind as not looking at flaws, just like Jesus loved us, that despite our sinful nature, he still gave his life as a ransom to all.

But my question remains, Have we lost the ability to believe that God is faithful in his promises, that He is not a man that he shall lie and not a son of man that he will change his mind, If He says would he not do it? Are we now, bringing God down to our level of commitment or perhaps lack of it. So we get disheartened since we may have lost faith in our ability to love and believe that we can be loved, now we bring God to the same standard that we measure ourselves.

Aren't we more starved for love now than we have ever been before? Do we need to look at the figures to see how many are sad and depressed? or don't we see how many speed up for their last breath?

Why do we run away from the creator of one of the most fundamental commodities of survival? Does not our lives revolve around finding fulfillment in every area, like marriage, career, spirituality, etc.. despite many not knowing that it is only in Him that we are complete.

God is so amazing in his blessings, that once you turn to him, once you come to believe that Jesus died for you, that independently of the inadequate feelings you may have about yourself, that Jesus thought of your more than worthy enough of his life so that He could pay the price of reconciliation for you.

For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
                                                             (2 Cor. 5:21)

"When we know that we are the righteousness of God in Christ, we step out of the narrow place of failure and weakness in which we lived into the boundless fullness of God"

(The Simplicity of Living by Faith)

For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers;                              (2 Tim. 4:3)

The answer lies here, we choose to believe lies, we choose to put our trust in people and not in God, we choose to trust our finances, we choose the creation instead of the Creator. Then we don't understand why we are so unfulfilled, why are we so unhappy?, why no amount of power, fame and things seems to be able to silence that famished void?

It does not have to be like that, for I have found wholeness, not in the way of the world but in someone who quenches all the thirst and fulfills all our needs. His name is Jesus Christ!

May this be an invitation for you too, to remove the veils that covers the truth from your eyes, that you may come to experience what true love is really like, that fulfillment is not only a hot topic to entice you to buy products and services, but that you get to live the freedom that Jesus bought for you with his life, with his Love!