Love, sweet love.

What is love that makes it so important to us? We write songs and stories about it. Most of our movies have at least some element of love in them, no matter if it is a superhero “guy” movie, or a children’s movie, there is love in some form in it.

I’ve been thinking about it, because I was thinking of stories I have written. Each one of them has something to do with love, even if it is a silly story about parents going overboard to protect their children, or a story of a duck who loves the ocean.

Why is love so important?

Perhaps it is because we have such a deep longing as humans for love. Even if someone denies that they desire love, you could pretty well guarantee that they are lying. You may be scared of love, scared of being hurt by it, but you still probably want to be loved.

I’m not talking only about romantic love. Other types of love are just as important and desirable. The love of a small child, who loves you unconditionally, just because you’re amazing. The love of a friend who knows everything about you, and still loves you dearly. The love of family, who protects you no matter what, because love is what holds a family together. Not just because you have to keep up appearances as a family, but because you truly love each other.

But why is it love that we are in pursuit of?

1 John 4:7-8 Beloved, let us love one another, for everyone that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. He that loveth not, knoweth not God for God is love.

As I was thinking about love, and why we are so adamant in our pursuit for it, this verse came to mind. Perhaps we are not truly looking simply for fulfillment of our emotional desires, but maybe we search so for love, because in truth, we are searching for God. Our hearts know that God is love, and so, even when we do not know that we are pursuing God, he is the desire of our hearts.

And each type of love that is in our lives is an example of the way God loves us, or the way we should love him. Like when you look at a little kid who loves you. They want to be with you, no matter what you’re doing. They just love you, without fail. And that is the way that I want to love God; the way that I am supposed to love him. Not only when he is doing huge things in my life, that make people take notice, but all the time.