Real Love Is Not Blind

Real Love Is Not Blind

An old saying insists that love is blind. I dare to disagree. I think real love is not blind. But that’s the thing. Infatuation is blind. But real love is not. Real love is many things but not blind.

Love is patient, love is kind, it isn’t jealous, it doesn’t brag, it isn’t arrogant, it isn’t rude, it doesn’t seek its own advantage, it isn’t irritable, it doesn’t keep a record of complaints, it isn’t happy with injustice, but it is happy with the truth. Love puts up with all things, trusts in all things, hopes for all things, endures all things.(1 Cor. 13:4-7, CEB)

Real love doesn’t close its eyes from reality.
Real love sees me as I am and loves me anyway.
Real love sees Christ in others.

Real love asks -like Jesus- “what do you want me to do for you?”
Not “what can I get out of you/this relationship?”
Real love doesn’t seek its own advantage but the good of the other.

Therefore, imitate God like dearly loved children. Live your life with love, following the example of Christ, who loved us and gave himself for us. He was a sacrificial offering that smelled sweet to God. (Eph. 5:1-2, CEB)

We love because God first loved us. We can’t love apart from God but if we abide in God we are able to learn to love like him. When we are secure in God’s love we are able to love like Jesus. Then we are not trying to take advantage of each other. Then we are not first seeking our own good but the will of God. Maybe then also we might smell sweet to God like Jesus.

 

Gracious God,
Thank you for your amazing love!
Thank you for loving us as we are.
Thank you for healing is with your love.
Empower us to love like you.
Enable us to recognize fake loves.
Energize us to serve you in love.
In Jesus’ name,
Amen

Q4U: What do you think? Is real love blind?

Be blessed, my fellow pilgrim, as you live in love!
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13 thoughts on “Real Love Is Not Blind

  1. So often, people are disappointed when the first months love infatuated love fade.  However, what can replace that exciting time is something better and deeper if we aim to love like Jesus loves.  I have to say, Mari-Anna, that I love my husband more now than I ever have (and we’ve been married almost 31 years!).  I know that is because of all of the “adventures” we’ve been on together and how we have kept God at our center.  Then, when I see my husband love ME when I don’t deserve to be loved, my heart swells for him and I love him all the more.  Love in our own strength is weak…but to love with God in our hearts is strong!  Blessings, Joan

    1. YES! “Love in our own strength is weak..but to love with God in our hearts is strong!” That pretty much sums it up! Thank you, Joan, for sharing your love story. I feel the same way. Real love gets better and better! Agape-filled Blessings, sis!

  2. Something to remember and focus on here. Infatuation sees its object with its flaws all air-brushed out. Love sees all the flaws clearly and loves onward anyway. A needed thought for my today. Thanking God.

      1. hey again! you probably already saw, but thought i’d mention just in case that i just shared this post w/ my truth in weakness community on FB. i know they’ll appreciate this as much as i did! and btw, i keep forgetting to mention that i’d love for you to incl. my name in your drawing for the (CEB) Bible! thx!

        have a wonderful, worship-filled weekend, friend!

  3. No, real love is not blind.  Real love knows the price of sacrifice and chooses to pay it anyway.

    You might also enjoy my current post, “Christ’s Love is a Choice!”

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