Love Stories

I have to admit I can be a sucker for love stories. I don't necessarily go searching for them I don't spend my evenings watching Sleepless in Seattle or You Got Mail though I've seen both and enjoyed them. There's is something about two people coming together that is appealing. Maybe it's just the hope for the future brewing.

Tonight I made mistake of flipping though the Comcast TV guide and ran across a movie that I've seen only parts of but have never watched the whole thing. Here is comes.. Tonight I watched "A Walk to Remember." Yes ladies its a sweet love story. Tonight in this film I got a little bit more than I bargained for. The love story was sweet but I never realized that there was a second love story hidden in this film. Did you catch it?

This film is quite interesting because hidden (maybe not so much) in this story between two teens is a pursuing healing God. Through the faith of young dieing girl, a boy is saved, the relationship between father and son is reconciled and God uses a daughter to remind a pastor to believe his own message of forgiveness and faith.

This story shows us what love looks like Sure is a story about two people but the big story is about  God pursuing and loving his people. I think there is something in this story for everyone.

• If your single there is hope - you will find someone
• If your in the mist of a broken relationship there's hope that God would heal that it. 
• If your struggling with the loss of a spouse or someone close to you God reminds us of his love and that even in the mist of death and sadness God still has a plan, he still wants what's best for his people though it might looks different than we might realized. 
• God's plan is bigger than ours his plans for us effect all those around us as we chose to walk by faith, be an example of God's love to others. 

“Jamie: You know what I figured out today?
Landon: What?
Jamie: Maybe God has a bigger plan for me than I had for myself. Like this journey never ends.....

If your struggling tonight remember God loves you and though things may not look they way you might want he has a plan for redemption, he has plan to save those who don't know him. He loves to redeem and restore relationships sometimes all that's needed is a little faith and trust in God to see a miracle.Trust him and his plans..

Do you know what love is??

1 Corinthians 13

New International Version (NIV)

13 If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. ² If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. ³ If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

⁴ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. ⁵ It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. ⁶ Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. ⁷ It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.

⁸ Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. ⁹ For we know in part and we prophesy in part, ¹⁰ but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. ¹¹ When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. ¹² For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
¹³ And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.

Tonight take a moment, slow down, take a breath.. Remember God's love is unfailing. His love saves us, heals us and never disappoints.. His love is greater than any other force on earth. His love caused him to send his only son to die on a tree for you me.. 

I don't know about you but humbled...