LOVE SUCKS!

" Love sucks!" A statement I have heard more than I have heard the word pizza coming out of the mouth of this generation. I was particularly reminded of this statement when watching one of the famous match making shows in Kenya...when a girl went on and on to explain why love sucks!.
I have to admit I have uttered the same words sometime back....

Let me start with the definitions: (I am just googling at this point)

Love: a profoundly tender, passionate affection for another person.

Suck: to draw (water, moisture, air, etc.) by or as if by suction: Plants suck moisture from the earth. The pump sucked water from the basement.


From that  I can actually say that love seems to remove something from us and leave us empty, dissapointed, desperate, angry, hurt....basically with every feeling that seems to draw the life out of us. Its ironic how a tender, passionate affection for someone can remove the life out of us!

Whats my point? 

I am left to wonder why would God place this thing called LOVE as the one thing that covers over all sins, the one that remains above hope and peace, why would He say that He IS LOVE?

1 Peter 4:8 :Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

1 John 4:8 : Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.

Colossians 3:14: And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

I believe the meaning was distorted at one point in time when we as mankind fell...when we decided we knew better and thought it was something we would handle. We got it confused with the gooey feelings, the passion, the rush of blood in our veins....that's why when all these feelings fade away especially in a love affair, one party is dumped and given the common statements "Its not you, its me", " I just don't feel the way I used to" .....

I heard a song that says " Love is not a place where we can come and go as we please, its a home where we are meant to stay, lock ourselves up and throw the keys." So according to this song its not something that should  fade away....meaning..its not a feeling. 

Then what is it?
Beats me! But to be honest I think its a choice that we make everyday to put other people before ourselves, its a decision you make to commit to someone even when the gooey feelings fade away, its a choice we make daily to die to ourselves and to live for a greater good, its a choice that you make that you'd rather die than let your friend die.

John 15:13 : Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

1 John 4:19 : We love because he first loved us.

What makes me think this way?
God is the author of LOVE, He is the one who started it all... by creating us in His image and giving us His identity and calling us His own, He is the one who loves us so much that even in our disobedience He went ahead and gave up his ONE AND ONLY son to die on the cross for our sins when He was blameless!

What makes us think we can master this thing called love if we do not learn about it from the author?, its like a mobile phone trying to become a mobile phone without it being programmed to be one.  What makes us think we are capable of showing true love to someone when we do not allow God to teach us, when we do not spend time reading His word and learning, when we do not talk to Him and let Him direct us?

Am afraid ladies and gentlemen that if we never give God the number one place in our hearts and let Him show us what true love is....then we shall forever remain to say.."Love Sucks!"

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 : If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;