A LOVE LIKE NO OTHER

By: Sheila Letrada

Some time in life, we experience to love and be loved by somebody. Those feelings gave us butterflies in the stomach, ‘causing our heart  skip a beat, and even grounds us to smile whenever his or her name pops into our mind. But when those so-called blissful feelings are gone, we oftentimes loosing ourselves and insecurities slowly sneak into our system. It seems like the love we had had vanished and that we will never be complete again. Certain circumstances could cause our fragile heart to be so broken.

We could not realize at times that we are struggling to fill those voids in our hearts by dashing into one relationship from the other or doing other stuffs. However, at the end of the day, we are defeated and still empty. Only to realize that nothing could ever fill up those voids in our heart, but only our maker and creator. Are hearts were intricately pottered and naturally designed to have an empty space that nothing in this world could satisfy. It is naturally designed by Him who knows us very well for us to seek Him and be satisfied with Him. He sees every part of our flimsy heart. 

We have been damaged, crushed, and left empty, and swore to ourselves that there’s no perfect love and that we could not ever find that faultless love that we were looking for. But hey, that’s really a wrong notion. We have to grasp that there’s still that perfect love, a love similar to no other, a love who’s geared up to shed His blood for us despite of our unworthiness, and that is Him, hanging on the cross for us.  

I’m not ashamed to tell you that you are loved by Him so greatly that even if we consistently neglect Him, He still waits until our hearts are opened for Him to reside; He desperately wants us and never gets weary to find ways until we are caught into His presence. That’s the kind of love that is so patient, so kind, so enduring. That love is what our hearts are looking for. Unfortunately, there are those times that we just look for this kind of love to some people and expect them to be