Tuesday, July 27th  – The Kindness Man Desires

What a man, what a woman desires, what they’re really after is kindness, another translation says an unfailing love.

If one was to look at the root of the soul, you will probably find out that the core of our longings is a longing for fundamental acceptance and affirmation that we are willed and wanted and that we belong. Such love is the answer to the longing that is inherent to human nature. Finding that we are intended and wanted and loved proves even more significant to us.

Unfailing love is by nature that which transcends that of fellow creatures, it is unfailing because it existed before we developed these temporal bodies and will exist after. The problem is we tend to go looking for love in all the wrong places.

The pursuit of love has forever filled our society, you find it in today’s songs and of course it never ceases to run through the movies that fill the screens of our culture. But like king Solomon rightly put it; what we need is an unfailing love i.e. the kindness that never fails. To expect another person or relationship to complete you and fill up the God like hole in you is setting that relationship up to fail. It is unfair and unrealistic. We end up sacrificing who we are.

Solomon was indeed one of the wisest men to have ever lives as he grasped the grand deception of searching for love. What is just as insightful is how this struggle played out in his life and so many who followed struggling with their dependency on winning others.

Psalms 32:10 says “… the Lord’s unfailing love surrounds the man who trusts in him.” Also Psalms 130:7 says “…with the Lord there is unfailing love. His redemption overflows.”

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