A Love Story To Share

Love...

A topic all of us can relate to.

When I was younger, I thought I was in love. I had a wrong idea of love. I thought it's something we just feel. I thought when someone is so nice to me, he loves me already.

"Love kagad? Di ba pwedeng mabait lang talaga sya?!"

We all had that "kilig" factor. It's a feeling you get when someone you admire notices you or gives you something simple yet so valuable for you. It's what you feel after spending time with that person and you get to know someone better. Kahit simpleng "good morning" na pinadala via group message galing sa "kanya", kinikilig ka na. That's the "kilig" factor.

But, there's more to love than that.

What if the "kilig" factor is gone? What if the feeling is gone? Should we end the relationship? Should we stop calling it love and just call it “crush” instead. Candy crush – it was so sweet like a candy but we had to crush it. Candy crush. Get it? (Pagbigyan nyo na ako, minsan lang ako magjoke) :p

What is true love?

If there's TRUE love, is there a FAKE love?

Have you heard of this term: lightly dark?

It doesn't make sense, right?

So is fake love.

LOVE in itself is true.

Here's my story:

I met this guy. I only heard about him when I was a little girl. I haven't actually seen him before, but people told me that this guy loves me. "Stalker ba yan?", you might ask. Well, I don't know if we can call him that but he does watch me and knows what I do even before I got to meet him.

So where did I meet him?
In a small book store through a new found friend in college.

This new friend of mine introduced him to me personally. She told me that this guy loves me. I've heard of it before but somehow, at that moment, it made me wonder why this guy loves me. Why would someone love a person like me? A person so insecure, selfish and a people-pleaser. It didn't make sense to me. The love of God didn't make sense to me.

Yes, that guy I met was God. I didn't actually see him but I somehow met him on a personal level. Then I met his Son, Jesus Christ. My friend told me that Jesus loves me as well and he even died for me just to prove that.

Hindi nakakakilig ang mamatayan. Dying on the cross was how Jesus demonstrated his love for you. Yes, you. He didn't just love and died for me, he loves you and died for you as well.

Romans 5:8 (NIV)
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

1 John 4:10 (NIV)

This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

John 3:16 (NIV)

For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.

This is my love story, your love story, our love story. And this love story is written in the bible.

We do not deserve this love, but he gave it anyway. We didn't ask for his love, but he gave it anyway.

Are you willing to accept his love for you?

Do you want to experience this kind of love as well?

Would you like to have a relationship with God?

If you say yes to these questions, send me a message and I'll let you know how, in a way that my college friend showed to me as well. :)