I fail to understand the association between love and heart break. Yes, sometimes love leads to heart ache, but associating love with heartbreak is synonymous to associating food with food poisoning: If you eat food, you will definitely get food poisoning, right?
No, Wrong!
No, Wrong!
I would brag of my cooking skills, but that is an article for another day. For those of you who love cooking and live alone, I’m sure you would confess that experimental dishes usually take over your weekend meals, especially after a long week of hard work and take-outs or fast foods.
The weekend arrives and I decide to indulge myself in some experimental exotic dish that I’ve seen on some reality TV show in which they evict chefs after challenges. I head to the market and buy some ingredients (save for snails, which I intentionally substitute with liver) and after careful preparation, I immerse myself into the delicious yet strange tasting meal.
Needless to say, the food is very tasty. I eat to my fill and sleep an extremely happy person. I go on to suffer from a severe case of food poisoning (and when I say severe, I am putting it mildly). The side effects of food poisoning last a whole two days and all that goes through my head is, “How could I have poisoned myself?” It’s actually more of hilarious than saddening!
Getting back to the association between love and heartbreak, I cannot help but draw similarity between it and my narrated occurrence. The only sure way to not get food poisoning is if you decide not to eat. But that does not mean that every food you eat will give you food poisoning.
Usually the best way to avoid heartbreak is to leave ‘matters of the heart’ to God. Jeremiah 17:9 says, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?” I am sure David’s first wife Michal (1st Samuel 18:27), getting such a man of valor and one after God’s own heart. Yet eventually she was lined up for a series of heartbreaks and disappointments still by the same man after God’s own heart.
No matter what decision you make, you will open your heart to heartbreak. But the only thing worse than choosing to not love, is to love with the anticipation of heartbreak. Doing this is defying God’s direct command. Psalms 62:8 says, “Trust in him at all times, ye people; Pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us.”
Entrust your heart to God, surrender your love to him, and then He will give your heart a nudge in the right direction. Love and food poisoning: Love is beautiful do not generalize it!
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