Our understanding of love is broken and wrong. People are hurting. What is the fruit of this? Shattered marriages. Children bereft of their parents. Children born to unmarried parents or, more commonly, single moms. Sexual perversion. People marrying after having had previous sexual partners. At best the result is difficult marriages loaded with damaging memories and former sexual partners only a Facebook click away.
This provides an irrefutable answer to many awkward questions: “How can you go with that woman? You are already married!” “Yes, but I fell in love with her.” “You are having sex outside marriage?” “Yes, but we are in love.” “You are beginning a homosexual relationship?” “Yes, don’t you know that I love her?” “You are a Christian, and you are romancing an unbeliever?” “Yes, I love him.” Not to do so would be to betray love. The good person must be “true to love.” Our understanding of love is broken and wrong. You now lie bewildered and helpless and “in love.” You didn’t mean to be there you didn’t choose to be there. You are there because of circumstances and forces that are beyond your control.Īnd once you are in love, you must act on it. What is love?Īccording to this mind-set, what is love? An overwhelming feeling of desire and passion. How does love happen? You fall into it. You are walking along, minding your own business, and the ground suddenly gives way beneath you like a trap door. Louis XIV, a deeply pious man, had two wives, many mistresses, and an indeterminable number of “one night stands.” But he was the King of France, and rich and beautiful women threw themselves at him. Could anyone resist such love?Įlvis sealed the deal: “Wise men say, ‘Only fools rush in,’ But I can’t help falling in love with you. Can I stay? Would it be a sin? ’Cause I can’t help.” And he sang this song so beautifully and innocently that it just seems mean to contradict him. The Roman god Cupid, son of Venus, shoots his magic arrow. His quarry falls skewered, in love, hors de combat. The idea that we are helpless victims of love is a very ancient one. Samson was powerful and as dangerous as an army, but Delilah and her loving charms turned him into Bambi. I heard a woman say this recently about her adultery with a married man with four daughters. She claims innocence. We must understand what she has done: “Love made her do it.” Perhaps we should even applaud her for being “true to love.” “I couldn’t help it. You can’t help who you fall in love with.”
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