Love.
I love broccoli.
I love my dog.
I love my jeans.
I love this song.
I love the color yellow.
I love you.
I love jesus.
Love. Its a word I use a lot. I probably say it more in a day than any other word in my vocabulary. People use the word to me, too. People say they love me...........right after they say they love a movie.
I'm frustrated, you guys. I've been frustrated with this for a while now. Love is not a word to be used lightly. And I'll admit to yall that I use it way too much, and way too lightly. The word is thrown around like it's nothing. IT'S SOMETHING!!! It means so much! yet it means so little to our generation.
Coming from a girl that struggles with love, and the thought of being loved, IM SICK OF IT. The word itself has lost all meaning. I'm numb to it. I struggle with truly knowing if I love the lord with all my heart. LOVE. Not the "I really like you a lot" kind of love. But the love that would yield me to give up my life for Him. The real Love. The only true love I've ever known. (wow, that was really cool to think about..) He is my first love. The one who holds my heart. I'm sure their will be another man in my life whom I will want to give everything to, but the Lord will ultimately have it all forever. LOVE.
I want to love Christ with a sacred, immeasurable, one-of-a-kind, love! How is a girl supposed to know what true love is, if we throw the word around every other sentence?!
Can I just be honest with yall? The main reason I was lead to blog this, is because I feel the need to address the boys/men of our generation and let them know to quit saying "I love you!" There are a few boys in my life, who are just friends, who say "I love you" to me. (And I'm sorry if you think you're one of those boys and you're reading this. Learn from it.) Not in a "relationship" way, but in a "best friends" kind of way. DON'T SAY IT. You are robbing me, and your future wife of the precious gift of "I love you." By all means, you can freely say it to me whenever you want. But know this-- The love that I have in mind, between a man and a woman, is the kind I've described. The kind that would cause you to spend your life with me, forever.--Let's be real. You, who have said I love you to someone you didn't mean it to, probably didn't mean it with that kind of love. So I have an idea.... QUIT SAYING IT! I'll take my own advice too. But hey, why don't we do ourselves, and our generation a favor, and lets put the value and meaning of "love" back into it?!
So, boys, quit saying it because you're ruining it. And I'll quit saying I love whataburger when at best I probably just really enjoy whataburger. Catch my drift? I feel like I'm beating this to death. And I don't want yall to think I don't love anything, or won't say "I love you," because thats not what I'm trying to say. I'll say "I love you" to my best friends (WHO ARE GIRLS) because they know me to the core and still choose to be my best friends. LOVE.
"LOVE one another fervently with a pure heart." 1 Peter 1:22
