What Love Are You Talking About? - Now Think On This by Steve Martin

What Love Are You Talking About?

- Now Think On This

by Steve Martin

Susie didn’t know what love was. Growing up in a family of five, with dad having left them all when she was three, provided nothing but rejection and hearts without hope. She didn’t have the fancy clothes and trending shoes that others wore. The kids in school would tease her because of her freckles and curly hair. She just didn’t fit in.

Her mom tried the best she could to put food on the table. Working a double shift at Rudy’s a few miles away, serving Columbian coffee to the early risers in the morning and the local draft beer to office personnel after hours, left little time to give Susie a desperately needed hug, nor a spoken, simple, “I love you.” So Susie’s heart longed for someone, or something, to fill that growing void.

By the time she turned 17, Susie had already tried what others had. With nothing to keep her pointed in the right direction, that midnight hour with Mark left her with a life within, but no other about. He too followed the way of the world and took the next train to Chicago, leaving her standing to face the day alone. The woman at the PP told her she had the right to subtract the “tissue that will pull your life down”, but something, she didn’t know from where, told Susie not to proceed. Maybe that other voice she now remembered was right. Life had begun, and this one would be different.

Love hadn’t been what Susie wanted it to be. She had dreamed dreams like every other precious princess had, hoping this too would fill the void, or that experience would ease the longing. "Someday her prince would come" would play in her head. 

Her pained heart still beat though, while longing to have someone tell her it would just be OK. If she had to go it alone, well, she would go it alone. Somehow she and the other beating heart would make it.

I could continue writing and say that this common story ended quite well. I could tell you that Susie found the love she had been looking for; that a righteous prince had come and provided for her and her child with everything good. But that didn’t happen.

You see, the Lord had tried to share His love with Susie through another, one who too had gone through the same story. He had appointed that person to speak life into her heart, and give her the hug she needed, to help her find the way. But they didn’t; instead seeking their own comfort and pleasure rather than sharing His love with others. And so Susie and her child were no more.

The moral of the story you ask?

“How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher? And how shall they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: "How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the gospel of peace, Who bring glad tidings of good things!" (Romans 10:14-15, NKJV)

You who are reading this now have been given the love that Susie and others need to know. You have been blessed with the gifts from the One Who loves, to share in your world. You have the hug to give, the words to speak, the knowledge and experience you have known, because He first loved you. His love is in your life.

Please go and share what you have. The world needs to know what love you have talked about.

Now think on this,

Steve Martin

Founder

Love For His People. Inc.

P.S. The above story about Susie is a story, but it is far too often a reality.

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Now Think On This #190 “What Love Are You Taking About” by Steve Martin 

Date: In the year of our Lord 2015 (10.17.15) Saturday at 6:37 am in Charlotte, NC

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