"you look prettier now, you look beautiful now; and you mean the world to me. are we ok? maybe we could talk about it" edison glass

How much has the Lord cleaned us? What depth have we been brought from? Paul talked of men in the last days being "lovers of self, money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, who are disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, unyielding, false accusers, without self-control, savage, despisers of good, traitors, reckless, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of Godliness, but denying the power of it" 2 Tim 3:1-5. How much like this are the rest of us at so many times. I know my own short-comings in most situations point my actions towards nothing further than what is above. 

Solomon wrote "The upright love You" (ch 1:4) and so they do. But in hopes that my love would be judged by it's intent rather than it's actions. The loved desires the Lover more than all other things, but foolishly folds to our nature at times. Charles Spurgeon wrote "Measure our love by our intentions, and it is high indeed; 'tis thus, we trust, our Lord doth judge of it." (Spurgeon's Morning and Evening Devotions). So our love is of the nature that cannot be seperated from our Lover. The history of the world is the history of all forces attempting to divide us from our Lover. All have failed, and the Word is proven true, as Paul said, "For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."(Rom 8:38-39)

It is His Love that enables our affections and our desires and intentions. In the way that he gives us the desires of our hearts, so he enables Love itself to flourish in our hearts. Far be it from me to allow my heart to condemn me for the weakness that is being dealt with by Abba in Love; so much more in another one of my fellow christians, so should love grow in my heart for all of these.