Feelings When You’re Falling
You know that feeling you get when you Love someone?
That feeling you have for a boyfriend, girlfriend, husband or wife. That feeling you have for your children. That feeling you have for your best friends or your siblings. That feeling you have for someone that you admire. For someone that you really want to get to know…
Do you know that feeling I’m talking about?
It’s those feelings you get when you’re falling… in the absolute best way, of course.
That one where you’re really interested in someone? Interested in their well-being, their happiness, their dreams and their passions! The feelings where that other person is just so lovely that nothing could talk you down from pursuing life with them in it. Your one desire is to make them happy. When they hurt, you hurt. When something is wrong, you want to help them fix it right then and there! When they Love someone or something, even if it’s something you never would have even taken a glance at, you suddenly want to like it too.
Oh, you know that feeling where there’s butterflies in your stomach?
Oh and you just can’t wait to hear that person’s voice? To see their face, to give them a hug and call them by their name! I LOVE that feeling of anticipation!
I love that! It’s miraculous how we can be in Love and how others can Love us too. Essentially, it’s like the most important thing. Essentially, all you need is Love.
So to think that the bible says that Christ Loves me and that He Loved me first kind of blows my mind.
I’m nothing special. Certainly not special enough for anyone great to truly Love me, right?
Wrong. The Saviour of the world Loves me and He Loved me before I even knew who He was, who He is. In a sense, He really Loved me before it was cool (oh, that hipster…)
Even more, He sent others to Love me. People like my best friends of past, present and future. Not only for me to Love, but to Love me in return.
I know I’m not always the greatest friend, but sometimes I really just can’t wait to see my Loved ones. Sometimes I get a huge smile on my face from a text message that just says something like “hey!”. Sometimes I can’t wait to just be in the presence of the one I Love. To hear about what they want, to hear about what they hate, to hear their voice, to hear their joy, to hear about the roles I may play in their plans…
I Love Love and I’m realizing that I Love falling in Love with my Loved ones
… and yet, the one who started this in me is the one I neglect the most.
“So we have come to know and to believe the Love that God has for us. God is Love, and whoever abides in Love abides in God, and God abides in Him.” -1 John 4.16
I want to fall in Love with God all over again. I want to fall further and further. I want to go deeper and deeper than I’ve ever been. I want to have more of those moments where I can’t wait to pray to Him just because I want to. I want to have those moments where I can’t wait to read the bible just because I can’t wait to read about what He’s done and what He wants to do in my life. I want those moments where I’d give anything to just be in the presence of the One I Love. To Love what He Loves and hurt for what hurts Him.
I want to fall in Love with Love.
LtRB.
