Marriage Under Pressure

Ch. 3 - Love (part 1)

Marriage Under Pressure

by wattpad*myst

Love (part 1)

"And this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, so that you should walk in it."
-- 2 John 1:6

You would say tactfully, "Dahil mahal ko siya!" That is what you thought of how you feel. That is the urging emotion playing vigorously inside your heart. But is that emotion God-given?

So firstly, what makes you think that LOVE nga ang na-feel mo to that guy? Are you sure it's true love? Is that for real? Dahil ba nakaka-relate ang feeling mo sa mga romance at love story sa mga books, songs, quotes and movies kaya true love na? Now think about this: If God united two persons who fell in love with each other to become one person, one flesh, one family (Ephesians 5:31); why would God then make someone on that family to fall in love to their neighbor (another person) to commit adultery? Why would God do something that will directly violates His own commandments (Ten Commandments)? That means that LOVE (eros) that a person gives other than the spouse is NOT love, simply because its source is NOT from God. The Bible said that God is love. (1 John 4:8) Therefore the emotion that which a person who committed adultery (which is against God's Ten Commandments) is not love, because if that is love, and God is love, then why would He developed another love to contradict Himself? Do you get the point? At 1 Corinthians 13, it says that "Love is patient and kind." So would you still say that love is kind if it destroys a family and hurt other's feelings? Remember that Adultery is a sin. That it will only occurs if someone tempted another to commit such ungodly action. And temptation is never God's work. So if temptation is not from God and the emotion that triggers a person to commit adultery is not from God either, then whose work it is? I guess you know the answer? Now think about that and ask the Lord for more wisdom. ("If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him."--James 1:5)

Just because such feeling comfortably flows along similarly with that on the internet quotes, facebook friend's status, poems, romantic movies, songs, or novels, but if its essence does not goes hand in hand with the Holy Bible, then it is not real love. Remember that a money, even if it worth a thousand bill, if fake is valueless. So don't be deceived. ("Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. Whoever sows to please their flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; whoever sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life."--Galatians 6:7-8)

So never ask for God's guidance to support or help your relationship with that guy, if it is currently having hard times and troubles, for such relationship is forbidden by God at the first place. (Be aware that the three main reasons why a person is experiencing troubles are these: (1) God is testing that person, (2) Punishments for that stubborn person's wrongdoings, Or (3) It is the consequences of the sin that person committed. Definitely your affair would never be number 1 for only the righteous are being tested and the sinners are then to be saved.) Why God would help someone to commit more sin or makes their sin worst? So you should rather ask for God's forgiveness for committing such adulterous affair; and that the guidance and support that you should ask is that God helps you change for the better (to something that is on His will and purpose).

Love is patient and kind; it is not jealous or conceited or proud; love is not ill-mannered or selfish or irritable. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away. (1 Corinthians 13:4-8)

It's says that love is not happy with evil, but is happy with the truth. So why are you rejoicing on your adulterous activities, yet the Truth declared it as a wrongdoing. Because you can't accept the Truth, you feel uncomfortable with it, so you rather neglects and despise it. You keep insisting to yourself that what you feel is true love even it is against God's commandments. Remember that Love does not insist on its own way. Not just because it feels right and the satisfaction is great, it is already true love. Don't forget the people who are now in pain because of your wrongdoing. So do you still happy with this kind of affection if on the way you hurt others? Love is not happy with evil so do you still insist this is love?

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