LOVE'S PURPOSE

"Some couples think that long distance affects their relationship badly and that love will disappear if they don't have regular contact to each other. But loving from a distance can test how strong this feeling is and how much the couple loves each other." - Unknown


1 Cor 13:7 (AMP)
Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening].


I have seen a couple of pictures put up by people as updates or statuses describing those moments when they are separated by distance from the one they love as awkward. Some even go ahead to anticipate things falling apart. Yeah, for me when my blessed eye fell on today's quote I could relate to such times but for me they weren't awkward. This quote is a kind of confirmation of what I have been brooding over recently. I know how we feel about proximity but really, what has distance got to do with love? This was the silent question that has been on my mind. And soon enough I found my position true when I personally had to relate with the question.

It is said that out of sight is out of mind and a lot of people have come to hold to this but is this true with love? Many times people love for different reasons which can range from the desire to have wealth, to fame and to different types of compatibility, just to mention but a few. Can most of these reasons stand the test of time when distance comes into the equation? It's not rare to find two persons start off pretty well in a relationship and most times when the challenge of distance comes into play to the extent that they don't see themselves as often as they used to (or perhaps as a result of mounting responsibilities that encroach on them they are unable to spend more time as they should), their love for each other begins to wane and the relationship's chance of success becomes a sad probability.

One strength of any relationship, I believe, that would stand any length of space, no matter how displaced the couple may be from each other in different time zones, is purpose. If the purpose of your being with the one you claim to be in love with is vague, then the abuse that distance brings into your relationship could probably be the straw that breaks the camel's back. True love has no reason, true love is eternal but one thing that gives it courage to go on here on earth under the firmament of the heavens, is purpose. Do you know why both of you are together in your relationship? If God inspired your coming together, then you have something to hold on to. Perhaps for someone reading you do not have a clear purpose why you're in a love relationship with your partner. Well, pray about it and when you find it do not let anything (definitely not long distance) take it away from you. Distance is just a test. Love maintains its strength in all circumstances, distance inclusive.


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