Thought of the Day 07.02.09

Boy sees hot girl. Boy and hot girl date. Boy grows bored of hot girl. Boy sees new hot girl. Boy leaves old hot girl for new hot girl.

Normally, we’d condemn the foolishness of this boy, who isn’t mature enough to realize that it’s okay for every relationship’s infatuation stage to wear off. But what if it’s not okay?

What if his desire for a continuously satisfying relationship is actually the result of a deeper truth? What if we were, in fact, built to love Someone Whose awesomeness not only wouldn’t wear off, but would actually wear on, growing greater day by day forever? If so, then the problem with our boy isn’t that he has such absurd desires. It’s that he thinks their satisfaction will come wearing a skirt and high heels.

But perhaps there is another lesson here. If he has mistakenly expected his love affairs to be as glorious as God, perhaps some of us have mistakenly come to accept that God will be as disappointing as our love affairs.