LOVE-DESIRED
Since we were
forged by the Lover, we should delight in loving and in being
loved. It would be inhuman not to
delight in love. It would also be
inhuman if we didn’t hurt deeply when rejected or sinned against by
others. The problem is not that we
desire love, the problem is how much we desire
it or for what purpose we desire it.
Do we desire it so much that it overshadows our desire to be imitators
of God? Do we desire it for our own
pleasure or for God’s glory?
Edward T. Welch
When People are Big and God is Small, P&R
Publishing, 1997, p. 148-149. Used by Permission.
The single
desire that dominated my search for delight was simply to love and to be loved.
Augustine