In my free time, I like to read, these days, I was reading some Korean stories, and all ended in a sad way if I saw it like that, then I repeated a movie that I also liked a lot like Noah's Diary, well its title in English is '' The Notebook '' and I started to analyze how much it costs to love?
Alice, who is called the girl in this movie, had to make decisions, leave her position all for that love, in that same moment, I could not stop thinking that if we being bad, we have that ability, how much more our Lord, who I renounce being God, he said it himself: nobody takes my life, I give it out of love, for the rescue of many.
I break in that moment, because we believe that love is to please our egoistic desires, sometimes, love hurts, love never stops being, even if you are not with that person that love is there.
"Jehovah said to me again, Go, love a woman who is loved by her companion, though she is an adulteress, like the Lord's love for the children of Israel, who look at other gods and love raisin cakes. 2 I bought it for myself for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a half of barley. 3 And I said to him, You will be mine for many days; you shall not fornicate, nor shall you take another man; I will do the same with you. 4 For many days the children of Israel will be without a king, without a prince, without sacrifice, without a statue, without an ephod and without teraphim. 5 And the children of Israel shall return, and seek Jehovah their God, and David their king; and they will fear Jehovah and his kindness in the end of days. "
Hosea 3: 1-5
This love that we see in Hosea 3, is manifested in four actions that God did with us, and that we have to do with those to whom we have to return the honor. It is not about staying in a sick relationship where you are abused; Where you are not appreciated, where you are not loved, or where you are not happy, that is not right. But, even if you have to separate maybe because it would not be healthy otherwise, in your heart, love and do everything possible to show love.
In these verses, we see four demonstrations of love. The first is loaded with the word love: Love the beloved, although the love that she has is a love of raisins. A raisin is wrinkled because it is a fruit to which the juice has been extracted, a dried fruit; It symbolizes a love that has been derived from living. It also speaks of sexual love, intimate: Go and love, even if you are sleeping with another. And the first love of the speaker is the love that pursues, that seeks: Go, and love. This first verse shows us that the first thing we have to do to demonstrate love is to claim the loved one. But it is not about claiming love for that person, but about claiming that person as yours; in the case of Hosea, say: That is my wife. Another case could be: These are my children. That is my husband, my help is good.
The love that restores is the one that first claims, and then pursues, seeks; seek intimacy, contact. Although their love is raisins, you seek. The love that restores, the love of God, pursues, returns and loves, seeks closeness; that is God's love for you. Man failed a thousand and one times, and God always returned; until he sent perfect Love, Jesus. He was the one who persecuted us; He seeks you, persecutes you. We always exhort: Search for God. But you could not look for him, if it was not because He sought you first. You would not find Him, if He did not want to be found. The only reason you can seek Him is because He has been persecuting you all your life. Search your family, look for it; look for your children, your friends, your neighbors. Look for closeness, make the effort, claim. Instead of being the persecuted, persecute. He who wants to be persecuted, wants to be a recipient of love; the one who truly loves with intensity is the one who pursues. But, to pursue, you must first claim. Who do you have to claim today?
God tells the prophet: Buy it. The love that does not cost is not love. We all have to pay a price. Love costs. It costs money, it costs effort. The problem is that we believe that love should not cost anything, but it does cost; It costs money, time, effort. You have to pay the price, and the one who loves is the one who pays it. There are relatives of yours who, if you do not call them, they will not call you; If you do not do the meeting and pay the tickets to go see them, you will never see them. And you can sit waiting for ten years to come to visit, for not being willing to pay the price. Stop thinking that if they cared, they would pay the price. If you care, then you are the one who pays, you are the one who seeks, you are the one who spends, the one who invests, the one who sacrifices, the one who does. A demonstration of love is the price you are willing to pay. You do not have to spend more, but proportionally. Because the problem of many is that they say that there is no money for certain things, but there is money for others. If there is money for a luxury car, that there is money to go on vacation with your family; otherwise, the priorities are not correct. It is not that you go and you become indebted, but that what you have you distribute it in an appropriate way, so that you can see where a price is being paid.
This love is also the love that renews. The prophet tells Gomer when he brings her to the house: You will not go to bed with any man, but neither with me, I'll give you your space. The love that renews is the one that knows how to give space, being close. Space is not given at a distance, but in the same house. You keep doing your homework, you still love, although there is a pending conversation.
Give space Leave the demands. If you are going to love, love without filters; and do it for as long as necessary. The love that restores is the love that demands persecution, seeking. The love that pays the price is the love that, in the nearness, gives you the space to take you to be all that you have to be. That is God's love for you. He does not have you as a slave, unless you are a slave to his love, that you have understood that he has loved you so much that you have no choice but to serve him because you are addicted to God's love for your life.
Release today all the hostages you have in your heart. Reclose them as your own, and pursue them, seek them, do all that is at your reach; pay the price. For how long? All your life. That, when you die, your conscience is clear because you paid the price. When you have them close, leave the demands, the fights, give space; do not be like the world that claims, demands, demands; so that then you can restore them. You are still in time, to let your own heart free and give place to that love.
Love without limits, that is the order of Jesus!
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