THE OTHER SIDE OF LOVE I

“Do not forget or neglect to do kindness and good, to be generous and distribute and contribute to the needy, [of the church as embodiment and proof of fellowship] for such sacrifices are well pleasing to God.” Hebrew.13: 16

“Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.” David Grayson.

In life we are presented with two sides of an issue or things, ups and down, good or bad, etc. The human tendency is to want the only good or the pleasant side of an issue and which often is not the case because, that’s not the way the creator of the Universe designed it. Amazingly, the some of the conditions we least desire are the ones that are most needful for our system to be balanced.

Love is one factor that most of us don’t seem to prefer the other side, but we cannot stop nor change the other side of love. It is better therefore to quit the cycle of frustration that comes with wanting to change things we cannot. I believe, it is because of the other side of love that people seem not to enjoy the ministry of love. But if people have a better understanding of this other side of love, they will be positively disposed to accommodating and enjoying it. Man is created with an instinct that craves for love, therefore it is a legitimate and holy appetite that makes our human nature unique. The Yearning for attention, recognition and appreciation we all experience from time to time is basically a craving for love.
When we desire and seek to be understood, accommodated, allowed and permitted to ‘Be’ we are simply exercising a very pure and natural instinct called love.

Because not much has been said about the other side of love, the enemy has been capitalizing on this preponderance of ignorance to mess up many relationships. The analogy that readily comes to mind is that of the rose plant. Love like roses exist with many thorns (i.e. certain unpleasant and unattractive occurrences). The path to true happiness lies in learning to manage the thorns, while enjoying the rose. It is in knowing the other side of love we get to realise that love is expensive. It cost more to love than to do any other thing else. Though love is a product every one need, we find it difficult to differentiate between true love and deceit. Lust in many cases at first, dress itself as love, every strong emotional passion tends to be labeled as love and that is why we have a lot of people emerging from certain experiences saying ‘ I was deceived’, ‘I thought she really love me’ only very few end up saying ‘ I am not disappointed, I know he really loved me’.

Apostle Lawrence Achudume
The General Overseer of Victory Life Bible Church Int'l
With branches spread across the globe
Can be reached on victory2life@yahoo.com
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