Nobody Loves You? Love Somebody

The chief complaint of some people is: “nobody loves me”. We all long to be loved. I expect my husband to love me. I want him to listen to me and care for me. I also expect the love of my parents. I want them to rejoice with me. In contrast to human love from which we have a lot of expectations, we are privileged to be loved by the Heavenly Father, Whose love is much beyond human understanding and human terms of ‘love’. “Greater love has no-one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” (John 15:13) This is the kind of love that God has poured out on us. So, truly, there’s never a time when nobody loves you, because God’s love lasts forever (Psalm 136).

But, while we are so consumed about being loved – either rejoicing in God’s love or complaining that someone doesn’t love us enough, we often forget that we ourselves are to show love. When I read Proverbs 17:17a (“A friend loves at all times”) yesterday, I was reminded of how exciting it is to sing “I am a friend of God... He calls me friend”. But, I rarely realise that God is someone to be loved. As one who claims to be God’s friend, do I really love Him at all times? He longs to be loved too, as a Person, in an intimate way. Isn’t that obvious when His greatest commandment is ‘to love God and to love others’?

God is NOT a supernatural machine, who processes our prayer requests, plans out our lives and provides for our needs. He is a Person, who is madly in love with you and longs to be loved back.

When we are absorbed in loving God and loving others, we won’t be too rigid about expecting others to love us ‘enough’. “Do to others as you would have them do to you.” (Luke 6:31)