Below is an email I sent to a friend. The analysis of Romeo and Juliet was first brought to my attention in a book by Mario Bergner called Setting Love in Order, a book that I would highly recommend. It is a short, quick read, but really powerful.
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I think it is pretty enlightening when we measure our own thoughts, motives, and actions against God's description of Love in 1 Cor 13. It is rare that we live up to this, but I've noticed when I was in the lifestyle that I was constantly doing things that were the exactly the opposite and yet calling it "love."
"4Love
is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does
not
boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it
is not
self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record
of
wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with
the
truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes. Love
never
ends." 1
Corinthians 13:4-8
The last
sentence
drives home an important point. There is a song I used to listen to in
high school that went “It must have
been Love, but it's over now...” Unfortunately it really
epitomizes the
pathetic and erroneous view I used to have that Love was an emotion or
feeling that can
come and go or can be conditional. I just googled the lyrics to that
song. It goes:
“It must have been
love, but it's over now
It must have been good, but I lost it somehow
It must have been love, but it's over now
From the moment we touched till the time had run out”
It must have been good, but I lost it somehow
It must have been love, but it's over now
From the moment we touched till the time had run out”
