The Love-Seeker

We all desire some kind of affection in life. Some of us will pay for someone’s time and attention and call it a date, others will do all kinds of things (some of these things being quite strange) to get the coveted response.  Some girls will sleep with a man to earn his affection, whereas a man could give all his affection to a girl in order to get her to sleep with him. In a family setting, a woman may put up with a man’s violent and/or adulterous ways in order to keep him, or to save face. Some women prefer the beatings and verbal abuse over the ignominy of divorce or separation. Other women prefer to consider their children’s well-being over their own, especially where the man is the provider.

We live in a society with so many broken-hearted people that it is a miracle we don’t fall apart. So many people have horrendous testimonies of hostile growing conditions and ungodly goings-on in their homes that we wonder if there is still hope for this aptly named wicked and wounded generation. Wicked because Christianity has become something to be peddled in a get-rich quick scheme and the church leaders cannot muster enough spiritual muscle to effect the changes we would want as a ‘Christian nation’. It is embarrassing to note that the church leaders in Kenya have lost the power they once wielded and are these days considered to only provide an opinion rather than direction. We are wounded in the sense that we are walking emotional zombies, dead inside but beautifully made up on the exterior. We are a case study of white-washed tombs, looking presentable on the outside but reeking of death and decay on the inside. So many failed relationships, broken promises, embarrassing moments and the like have turned us into people who will accept anyone and anything since we have lost the true measure of our value in the eyes of God.

So we find a situation where we are all seeking for some kind of affection, and those who don’t care anymore try their best to live in emotional isolation, never letting people come too close for fear of being hurt. Building up walls does help in keeping enemies away, but it keeps incredibly valuable people away too. We run the risk of developing one system that caters to all categories of people thereby throwing out the baby with the bath water. The love-seeker has to turn to the Perfect Lover. He is the One who loves with an everlasting love, and will never leave us nor forsake us. His love goes straight to our foulest and most secret catacombs resurrecting the deadness of our emotions and restoring lifeless hope. He went through what we go through and can identify with more pain than we could ever suffer. He knows, He understands and He is willing. He is Jesus. He is the Lover of the love-seeker.