Love Language – Truth or Lies? Love for me has always been a foreign language. I could “hear” others speak the words; I could “see” what it looked like; I could “feel” the absence of it…but I never had anyone teach me that language, so I never really understood it. I longed to know, to experience it. Would anyone ever say those words – I love you – to me? In a language that my heart understood, trusted? True love? But at 75 years of age, I found true love in a most unique and unexpected way. The enemy of true love attempted, very convincingly, to snare me with all the right words of imitation love and adoration. Cyber love – the liar’s cut-and-paste love language. I fell for it all for three months until God stepped in and rescued me by shining His Light on the lies that I’d allowed myself to embrace in the darkness of my searching soul – closing my eyes to the red flags because I didn’t want that feeling to ever end.
He graciously let me choose whether my desire was greater for the temporary “feeling” loved from the liar, or for the never-ending, personal True Love of my Creator. It wasn’t easy to choose letting go of that sweet feeling. It was heart-breaking. Like giving up an addiction, there was pain and temptation in choosing the path forward – in choosing God’s Truth or the enemy’s feel-good lies. But God gave me the strength and courage to let go and take His Hand, trusting Him to lead me down a road with a future instead of the road of destruction I was blindly heading down. It was a faith journey all the way. He has continued to show me what True Love is versus the imposter’s cheap imitation. This is the love language I’ve longed to learn all my life. I am forever thankful for God’s grace and patience in waiting for me to choose Him above all else! How priceless is your unfailing love, O God! People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.” Psalm 36:7
