Love and Worship

I want to continue the earlier discussion of Love.  With the distinction made between the two loves, Classic and Contemporary, I believe further division will help there be some understanding between us. 

There are some poets, songwriters, and other artists who encompass worship as a part of Love.  However this is not the truth.  I will begin my argument from the point of Love.  Love I defined earlier as being something stronger than the butterflies that you get when "falling in love".  Love is stronger and withstands the trials that are placed before it.  There is also truth in love.  Not only in the feelings but between two people.  Those who are truly in Love must be willing to be blunt and honest at times with their Loved on, knowing that what they say may be painful to hear.  This is a scary concept for anyone in a relationship but it is better than the alternative. 

As an example lets consider a couple who have been together for almost a year.  They truly Love each other.  He has only one complaint, when she is around her girlfriends she becomes a rude gossip and often returns home with so many stories about the scandalous things that other people are doing.  He is left now with two choices, if he can tactfully and kindly discuss this habit with her expressing his dislike then things will most likely improve for them.  However if he says "No, its not that big of a deal I can just live with it." Then he truly must.  Perhaps this habit of hers is grating on his nerves and will continue to fester into a viciously infected wound.  Those types of wounds begin to poison everything that they do together.  I believe that Love would dictate that he open discussion about this or steer the conversation elsewhere.  He could ask "What sort of good things have the girls done, things that weren't drama causing." or perhaps be as blunt as me and simply say " I realize you and your girlfriends talk about this sort of stuff but its not something that I really care to hear about.  I'm more interested in how people are helping people." 

So what I am saying here is that Love can care about someone enough to point out their "faults" in order to watch them grow.  I think of parents who discipline their kids so that later in life their kids will be responsible and caring adults.  Or of God with Israel, when they needed rebuke he sent someone to rebuke them, typically prophets.  This was out of love, so that they would be an example to the nations of how to live.

Now on to Worship.  Worship is paying homage to something greater than yourself.  We worship God.  Now if we are to worship the one we love, our significant other, there becomes a problem.  On earth the relationships we have are to be of mutual people.  One of the earliest things that is from God  is this "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh." from Genesis 2:24.  Now if we are to take this seriously then by becoming one flesh we are joined together.  If you are joined with something greater than yourself you will either be destroyed or consumed by it.

I once worshiped someone I loved.  And I was both consumed and destroyed by her.  When I came to the realization of what had happened to me I was able to pull myself out of the relationship but it was difficult and still is to deal with the concept of Love.  I think that is why I write about it.  I want to be able and express un-interrupted my thoughts about Love so that hopefully someone will read this and not make my mistakes.

Thank You for reading this

Peace and Grease