Moving from

 Lust to

Like to Love

When you meet someone its all about Lust, you have no idea who this person is, but you are caught up in the Lust of he or she. The way they look, smell, smile, walk. It makes you just lust and want to be with them. When you are in lust, you try your best to be around that person and see if you will eventually like them. The thing about lust is, lust is very easy to fall out of, if you never learn to genuinely like that person, and its only lust then you eventually realize its not what you want. Lust can have your head so messed up that you think you are in love. You want to be with that person because you like who you THINK they are and you like who you WANT them to be. But its at that time that you move into like.

Have you ever liked someone so much that you just want to spend all your time with them and really getting to know them? You know, really get to know, what makes them laugh and cry and know what ticks them off. That’s how you know when you like someone. You really wish to get to know them and they wish to know you. Often times in the like phase, we FIND OUT if this is really the person we want to fall in love with. We spend time, talk on the phone and court each other.  You know really “court” like our parents and grandparents. Go on dates, open doors, spend alone and intimate time with each other to genuinely know them. It is at that point that you start to fall in love.

Love, so many people get love confused with Lust and Love. How can you love someone and you not even know if they really can make you happy. Like really make you happy? I’ve had a problem in the past where I liked someone and lusted after them but then I fell in love, not because I was just WOWed by them but because I thought it was the right thing to do and because I liked being around them.  So lets go to the biblical definition of Love

1 Corinthians 13 (New International Version)

 ⁸Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹For we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰but when perfection comes, the imperfect disappears. ¹¹When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. ¹²Now we see but a poor reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.

 ¹³And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Love to me moves beyond like and lust and into the eternal. Love is faith in that person, Love is trusting that person with your heart, love is knowing that person will always be there for you. Knowing that the person loves you even if you were 100lbs heavier, knowing that the person was sent to this earth by God to love you. Not every woman all over the world, but by God to show you that he loves you! We you are in love, it moves beyond just thinking about them everyday and longing to be with them. Its knowing that God made them for you and you wouldn’t be as great of a person without them, its knowing them and what makes them who they are and what makes them perfect for you. That to me is the epitome of Love. Knowing that the person is PERFECT for you. Even in the bible, it says “perfection appears and imperfect disappears” All the things you thought you didn’t like disappear because you have someone in your life that makes your days better.  He or she will not be perfect but the meshing of your heart with theirs makes a perfect union.

Everyone wants to be in love, but do they understand how to like someone enough and move past love to understand the spiritual meaning of love and its intricacies?

Yep, I’m falling in love…