Real Love vs. Hollywood
I don’t even pretend to be a romance expert. But I know what real love is. And what’s not. In this romance-crazy world people have lost a sense of right and wrong also in the areas of love. Hollywood seems to be the last word on what’s cool and what’s not. Hollywood seems to be the authority over happiness in relationships nowadays. But I dare to say Hollywood does not have a clue about what real love is.
Hollywood has watered even romance down and puts silly motions and over-emphasized feelings on a pedestal. Hollywood makes you feel you’re a failure if you are not in a love relationship. Hollywood makes you think you deserve to be always pampered. Hollywood keeps feeding lies over lies to the romance-crazy world. But people who are craving to be loved will not find what they are looking for in Hollywood. The real love is found on the cross of Golgotha.
For God so greatly loved and dearly prized the world that He [even] gave up His only begotten (unique) Son, so that whoever believes in (trusts in, clings to, relies on) Him shall not perish (come to destruction, be lost) but have eternal (everlasting) life. (John 3:16, AMP)
Real love is so radical that it is nowadays becoming so controversial that adds talking about it are banned. But the good news is … no matter how hard the world tries to silence the voice of God it’s not going to succeed. Because God’s love is so radical, so scandalous, so amazing that -when we let it embrace us- it transforms us, fills us with love and grace, and sends us out to love others.
Real love builds us up.
Real love sustains us.
Real love supports, heals, and encourages.
Real love cries with us, stays with us through thick and thin.
Real love is faithful, unselfish, and kind.
Real love embraces us with unending peace.
Real love is inclusive and welcoming.
Real love keeps giving.
Real love never leaves us.
Real love is more real than life itself.
Real love is so amazing that when we get even just a glimpse of if, all we can say is ‘WOW’.
And we know (understand, recognize, are conscious of, by observation and by experience) and believe (adhere to and put faith in and rely on) the love God cherishes for us. God is love, and he who dwells and continues in love dwells and continues in God, and God dwells and continues in him. (1 John 4:16, AMP)
Gracious God,
Your love is so astonishing,
so powerful, so amazing!
WOW!
Thank you for loving
each and everyone
beyond our wildest dreams!
WOW!
Be with all of us but especially with
everyone who feels unloved,
unaccepted, unwelcome.
Wrap them in your amazing love!
Enable all of us to love more!
In Jesus’ name,
Amen
Q4U: How do you deal with the romance-crazy world?
Be blessed, my fellow pilgrim, as you live in real love!
Image courtesy of Marian Trinidad. Linking up today with What’s on Your Heart Tuesdays & Soli Deo Gloria & One Word at a Time: Romance Blog Carnival.
12 thoughts on “Real Love vs. Hollywood”
“The real love is found on the cross of Golgotha.” Amém! I loved that statement!
It is sad that so many people suffer because they are looking for the wrong thing (physical satisfaction, pleasure) in the wrong place (in the world). May our light shine more and more bright so we can show them the true love that comes from God.
Thank you, Cris, for chiming in! Yes, may our light shine more! Blessings to you, sis!
I ‘love’ this post! 🙂
Great job, Mari-Anna!
Thanks, Peter, for stopping by! Blessings to you and yours!
When we have accepted God’s real love, it is then that we are able to understand and find our true love in marriage and with our family.
Exactly! Thank you, Hazel, for sharing your thoughts. God’s loving blessings to you and yours!
Amen, girl! I think often Hollywood can get into our brain and make us think that what we have is not really love. We have to remember that what we have in our husbands (in most cases) is love and we have to fight to maintain that fire. And as far as the love of Christ? Nothing can compete.
Preach it, sis! 🙂 Thanks so much for chiming in. Abundant blessings to you and yours!
Believe me, I know the difference. I watch the “difference” in the lives of my kids and g-kids. It’s quite sad in today’s world when movies and celebrities run everything. In years past, when movies were just movies… it had influence, but nothing like today with TV, on-line news and shows, the constant in-your-face “love” stories. And, unless our world-culture changes, my opinion is that we are headed for serious trouble. HE IS THE ONLY LOVE. Thank you for sharing so straightforwardly … and the Focus kids were a treat!
Thanks do much, Joanne, for sharing! I feel the same way. The morals and values are changing according to Hollywood! Yikes! God really is the only love. We have some serious praying to do! Blessings to you and yours!
This is my first time here, but I do recognize a couple folks in the comments 😉
First, love that video clip!
Second, I ignore the world and eat His Word!
Blessings.
Welcome, Darlene! Thank so much for your comment love! Yes, I think we need to ignore the messages of the world and really eat His Word! Abundant blessings to you!