When Love Must Be Questioned

It's been said that when you love something enough, you'll never give up on it.  Love indeed inspires a steadfastness within the will to press past the seasons of difficulty encountered.  It keeps alive your belief in those outcomes your heart has already embraced as real and true, so your passion's fire remains lit and you continue giving it all you've got in hopes of seeing the desired results manifest.  If faith without works is indeed dead (as stated in James 2:26), then love becomes quite the necessity for ensuring your faith's vital signs remain intact.

However, when the thought of giving up comes to mind, are you brave enough to check your vitals?  Would you honestly have the courage to ask yourself something very important: "Just how much do I really love what I'm thinking about giving up on?"  It's--no doubt--a question that cuts straight to the core of what's being experienced and rightfully demands a response so real that--depending on the subject at hand--it will grip your very soul with fear.  But what must be understood is that this questioning is about YOU coming to grips with WHY you're willing (or unwilling) to do what is necessary to achieve the desired outcomes.  If you can't manage to express how much you love what is now hanging in the balance, then why should its pursuit consume so much of what you have to give?

Life has allowed me the opportunity to learn that, when it comes to the expression of my will, there's absolutely nothing wrong with admitting what I probably don't want to hear.  Yes, it's hard to do sometimes...  But you see, it's only when I refuse to admit it that fear of the truth is allowed to keep me in bondage to what's actually a lie.  I'm here reminded of the profound saying that, "The road to hell is paved with good intentions."  In other words, failure to embrace the truth that love no longer lives here--all the while doing good deeds--will only lead to a hell on earth experience that could have very well been avoided, had one been brave enough to say, "I really don't love this anymore, and today is the day I stop investing my valuable resources into something I no longer believe in."  Of course, this may not even be your answer to the question.  But either way, you'll never know what that answer will be if you deny yourself the opportunity of it being asked.