Romance serves a purpose. It’s a meditative state. It puts logic to sleep so that people can come together. Otherwise, you guys probably wouldn’t risk it. Love is big. It’s a bright light in the universe. And a bright light casts a big shadow.
// 1 John 4:18//
Perfect love drives out fear.
It feels so good to rest in that. To take all my weaknesses and just rest in God’s real, unchanging promise.
As human beings, we have a natural tendency to run away from vulnerability. Our flawed logic tells us that to be unguarded is to be soft. Weak. And no one wants to walk around limping, tattered heart on their sleeve, so we build bricks and we build walls and we place mortar until we’ve finally created a fortress made out of our own insecure devices that no one — especially the people who love us — can get through.
Of course, at the root of everything: we’re all just terrified of pain.
But perfect love drives out fear. I like that.
Because it means that there is something bigger out there that can assume all of the terrified things in my heart. There is something that will take me at my weakest, without judgment, condemnation or the burden of responsibility. There is something I can rest my weary soul upon that loves louder, deeper, higher and wider than even my greatest of fears.
I don’t have to be tough. The love that holds me is tough enough for me. Perfect love.
