Pure love restores death

lately, i've been thinking.

two hearts intertwined is a dangerous combination. 

hearts so intertwined with a soul connection, perhaps perceived (the very perception that it does gives truth to it)- the alignment of intellectual and spiritual depth that lends to the understanding of each others' thoughts.  i am talking about an attraction so severe, because you know that heart, the mind, the soul tells you so. things are unspoken, but still deep understanding is the common understanding. 

and it needs to be mutual, of course. (if not, it gets kinda delusional.)

when soul alignment takes place, the want to grow more into each other takes place. because even with that alignment, there are bound to be differences, but it is in our second nature to want to be one; God created us that way. (Ephesians 5:31)

that is why love either creates or destroys.

love creates when this love is God's kind of love. the gentle spirit of the slowing burning steadfast love of the Father. He acts in loving kindness because he knows it all, the essence of all things in the light.

love destroys when we seep in sinful human thoughts and ways. we stay in grey clouds of obsession, trample each other's righteousness by indulging one another. even in the keeping of love within a relationship, a force that God created to fight the darkness in this world, tends to lead down a slippery slope of disaster. love was never meant to be a selfish possession between merely two or a few people, but in such cultivation brought out to be light in this world. else it be explosive in nature, channeled towards lame ways, like possessiveness, or the testing of the extent of one another's love.

and here i bring in 2 Corinthians 6:14, one of the most used yet misunderstood verses in the bible about romantic relationships:

Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?

and this makes so much sense to me now.

love is created when we choose to put Jesus Christ as our first love, when we know that despite human imperfections, if Jesus rules and governs our lives and relationships, that nothing can ever be "subjective judgment" anymore because God is the ultimate judge. in the building up of a relationship/friendship based on God above all, it grows from strength to strength, never to be shaken by the ways of thought that traverses through seasons and generations.

love destroys like mentioned in 2 Corinthians 6:14. perhaps it could work the opposite, that light overwhelms darkness. but that is the exception, not the norm. in most cases, it stumbles. when the growing of likeness presents a merger of both parties' beliefs and values, that is where compromises take place.

as nicholas sparks puts it, "pure love awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds."

word, but only when Jesus Christ defines pure love.