Don't Say, "I Love You," Unless...Part 2

I Love You: Part 2

I can assure you that I have been blessed to experience this love in my lifetime. Please know that without any doubt, the most rewarding, peaceful, and joyous seasons of my life have truly existed when I have willingly lived in complete awareness of this love. I must tell you that in living this way, I have never enjoyed any greater contentment or happiness. I cannot impress on you the profound freedom from anxiety and distress that I have possessed and celebrated as a result. This is most certainly true.

I wholeheartedly say that nothing on this earth can be compared to the genuine comfort of this life of love that God graciously grants us. This is no secret to me. This is not trivial to you. This is not a matter of conjecture for any. We undoubtedly know this to be the only objective that we are commanded to pursue and achieve. It is our choice to either live blissfully in obedience to this righteous mandate or endure the self-inflicted torment that comes from our deliberate defiance of this holy directive. It is my heartfelt hope that you will zealously strive to live in accordance with the former. It is my sincere prayer that you will truthfully love and be loved in this life. Be spiritually bold. Be honestly courageous. Stop living in knowing pretentiousness today. Admit the truth of love to yourself each day. Without any reservation, earnestly confess and live in the complete understanding that love magnificently unites and powerfully divides. 

You should never again climb love’s wall, perch vulnerably atop it, anxiously scan both sides of it, wish and hope to be recognized, and perhaps be taken in by someone for momentary self-satisfaction. Stop deliberately sitting on the fence. Take a stance. Pick a side. Either vigorously select the right side of love for your absolute benefit, delight, and salvation or shamefully choose the wrong side of love to your downright misery, ruin, and death. The choice is yours alone. You are fully aware of the decision you should make. Stop making excuses for simply wanting to be noticed. Do not pretend that this is love any longer. Do not be confused when this fails you again and again. 

You are intelligent. You possess a soul. You completely comprehend the consequences of your actions, wants, and needs. It is your fault alone when you apathetically settle for immediate gratification in place of love. Stop sinfully proclaiming this to be love. You know it is not. Stop lying to yourself. Do not think, even for a second, you can fool yourself into believing this exclamation is true. You assuredly know when doing so that you will only reap certain unrest and ultimate desolation. 

You are not only a capable individual but also a powerful person. You are a glorious human being, who was created to perform things that are honorable and right. Employ your entire being to live in the conviction of this knowledge and truth. I promise that if you do, you will never again experience dissatisfaction and heartbreak with respect to the world’s deceitful interpretation of love. Rather, you will forever enjoy sanctification and strength through godly, virtuous love, in every aspect of your life.

The fact is that we know this life is temporary. We firmly grasp that we have little time to live. We completely comprehend that our days are numbered. We sincerely understand that our existences on this earth are transient. 

The apostle James most profoundly taught and clarified the unmistakable truth regarding the brevity of life in James 4:14: “For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away” (KJV).

The simple fact of the matter is this: We ought to live morally, to the fullest extent, and in the present tense each day. We must strive to be presently perfect in all things. In so doing, we thoroughly eradicate any regrets regarding our pasts. We likewise eliminate any worries concerning our futures. We positively live for our current circumstances. This is the manner in which we are to approach our lives. 

This is how we must love. We have unequivocally determined that we exist to only live ethically and with spiritual love. We only accomplish this when we morally love and seek the essence of love from others, in the present. Never forget that true love is constantly occurring. 

How many times have you encountered death? Have you lost a loved one? Do you have friends and acquaintances whose family members have passed away? Have you noticed that often, regret consumes the souls of those who have survived the deaths of their loved ones? These survivors regularly express that they should’ve hugged and could’ve kissed or that they refused to take time to listen, lacked the courage to say I love you, and wished for just one more hour so that they could perfectly demonstrate their sincere love for the ones who had been taken from them. Without fail, their sense of extreme loss is exponentially compounded because of their willful failures to intimately manifest their fervent love to their loved ones while they were yet alive. The hearts of the vast majority of those left behind are torn, quite simply because they rejected their calling to reveal their love while they had the opportunity. Their loved ones are dead. They will never experience life together in any manner whatsoever here on Earth. Their relationships are finished. He or she is forever gone. Their time with one another is instantaneously over. It’s done. 

Isn’t this utterly sad? Can we at the very least confess and acknowledge that this is frustrating? We know we are going to die. Our families and friends will die. These are irrefutable truths. What more can be said? Do you want to regret having not perfectly loved your family and friends after their deaths? No, you do not. Do you want to live the rest of your life in misery because you failed to faithfully display your love for the one you have lost? Of course, you don’t. Well then, don’t. 

Instead, powerfully demonstrate your love for all whom you truthfully adore today. Say, “I love you,” to them loudly and often. Exuberantly hold, hug, and kiss them today. Choose to presently emanate charity for them always and without fail. In like manner, energetically pursue affection from your family as well as from those with whom you morally agree. Willingly accept and delight in their honest and fruitful fondness of you. Relish the, “I love you,” that they candidly proclaim to you. As the lover and the loved, live in the genuine inspiration and enjoyment of love’s comfort today. Live this way presently, perfectly, and today. Live with no regrets. Start this very minute. Together with your loved ones, live enraptured in love’s marvelous, sincere embrace. May God grant you this righteous passion, goal, and drive. May God bless you with this honorably fulfilling experience, pleasure, and peace today and in all of your life.

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