This is an excerpt from Rachel Renee Smith’s featured post on the S.O.A.P. Love Project, by Greater Working Women Ministries, in which 21 writers from across the US are writing on various love scriptures for the month of February. These posts will also be published in a free e-book this Spring.
Sometimes in our human quest for love, affection, or some kind of fulfillment we forfeit real love for a momentary thrill. Real love seems too hard to find; it is taking too long, so we accept any kind of love in the meantime, not realizing the harm and destruction we are inviting into our own lives every time we trade love for its cheaper substitutes. These substitutes never last, which leads to the experience of more fakes and phonies, along with the heaping up of sinful behaviors, because they always come with a price. After engaging in this behavior for a time, we are left with feelings of utter dissatisfaction, loneliness, rejection, and even depression. We feel that we are a long way off from where we should be and even feel hopelessly separated from the love of God. Read more here…
