I watched Oprah today and wow. The show was about love addiction, and there was this woman who spoke most of the time was is a recovering "love addict".... and things she said I can relate to so much right now. I started questioning if I could be labeled a "love addict." Haha, oh man. Well... her story is basically that she was with this guy 3 years ago who all of sudden left her, and since then she's been "stalking" him. And this was after ending a 12 year stalking of another guy! She explained that through her recovery program she had "father issues" brought to her attention and realized it affected her ability to have intimacy with another guy. She said she can go about her day right now but still feel completely depressed inside. I could hear her cry for love!! And what AMAZED me was the Oprah stated at the end of the show that "everyone needs a spiritual connection." Oh how true Oprah is.
A professional "addiction" specialist was also on the show and he attacked the root issue of people who are addicted to love. He explained that they have an inability to be intimate because of either an abuse in the past or a hurt from a father. They long for intimacy but are able to be intimate and open to another. They're always seeking to fill that void, but never truly let their guard down. Relationships fail because of it. A really good point he made is that humans were made for intimacy and can't live without it. The woman said that she feels she'd be "happy" if a guy would turn and love her back, but that if they would she knows that she would really turn and run the other way. Oprah started asking, "Why do we want those who don't want us?!?" And I think to conclude the solution for a love addict, they must turn to God...
One who IS and who has ALWAYS been wanting intimacy with us. Not just fatherly, friendship intimacy, but a raw passionate love! He waits outside the windows of our hearts until He's let in. God is a gentlemen so He won't come rushing in, but He'll wait... even if it takes an entire lifetime. In the meantime though He'll do ANYTHING in order to get our attention. Even if it means putting His love inside of an earthly man and then taking it away only to show you that He is still there.
I wish I could sit down with that woman and speak the love of God into her. Speak to her very fears until the love of God melted them away and give her the access to a truly happy life. I almost wanted to applaude when Oprah made her ending statement, because in all complete honesty when we look at the world and it's need for love- NO man can fulfill that hole except Jesus Christ. No one is ABLE to fill that hole but Him! No eartly man will ever hold as much love or desire for a woman than He can. I honestly wish that my eyes were completely blinded to all other men right now and that I could just see God, feel God, sense God. It takes faith to know that He's there and that He loves you endlessly. It's taking all the faith in me right now to pursue Him with a broken heart. But I am, because I know He is reality. I know that I can't look to any other man for what my heart needs because I know that any other man but Him has the ability to fail and hurt me. God isn't capable of hurting me; He can't! I'm convinced that God sent His son to RESCUE us and SAVE us from all this world wants to give. Jesus is the ultimate representation of true love. When I think of His amrs outstretched on the cross I picture Him giving His complete self to His bride; those who will one day be completely His. The cross is a history where God has physically shown His love to humankind. To become His bride takes an awakening and a COMPLETE giving of self. We live for God because we love God... any other "life for God" will not work. Sin will keep happening: depression, hurt, pain, hate, emptiness, loneliness... will all still remain in our life until we see God. Until we know of His love.
I can't wait to fall in love with God...
Open myself to Him completely...
and never never NEVER be hurt again.
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