Love is a Choice

          "You don't just fall in love. Love is a choice because you choose to invest in a person."
I heard this quote from church camp a long time ago when I was a consulor to some jr. high girls and it hit me then. The message was kind of the same at church this past Sunday so the quote came back to mind and it is, again, the perfect time in my life for it. You might be asking what in the world do you mean by this quote because as humans we think we just fall in love I mean that is what all the movies show us, right? Love, especially deep love, is so much more then that.
           Deep and meaningful love is a choice because you chose to invest in a person. You can "fall" for just anyone but it takes someone special for you to invest in and spend time with and maybe, hopefully, the rest of your life.  I call it "deep love" too because that is a neat way to think about it between God and us. God had such a deep love for us that he chose to invest in us and give us the time to choose if we what to invest in Him. We choose to invest in Him when we take the time to study the Bible and talk to Him along with following what He has planned for us.
           I love being a single women and seeing this with our Creator before being married. You hear all the time that the marriage relationship should be that of the one that is between you and God. I started to question it not to long ago but now I'm starting to see the beauty of it. I mean just by choosing and investing in one person is beautiful especially when you look wand see that is what God is doing to you. Don't you want to be loved that same way and don't you want to love someone else in that same way.
          Yes, we are human and we will ever be able to reach that love that God has for us as his children but that is the beauty of His Love. We can still try to reach that and love people like that or near that every once in awhile. It is also so sweet and beautiful to see that even though we mess up so many times God still loves us and cares for us. I hear people say sometimes that there might not be "the one" for us, the perfect one that girls dream of. That prefect prince in shining armor. Really, on earth there isn't a guy like that because we are all human and will mess up but that is why we want to make God the center of our lives before marriage and of course during marriage. That's why we can't be unequally yoked.
           Really, that prefect prince in shining armor is God and our focus should be on Him all the time. Girls, we are his princesses and He will take care of us all the time. Our focus should be on Him because if it isn't how can we serve our human husbands if we can't even serve on Heavenly One. He just brings a man that will take care of us and that we can have campanionship with on this earth. He still wants to be a part of our lives whether married or not because a human cannot make us fully happy ever. Sorry guys. :)
           Remember, we don't fall in Love, we choose to invest in a certain person. Just like God chose to invest HIS LIFE AND SON in us.