It was very light reading, a romance with a happy ending. All through the book, although the reader didn’t know it, ‘he’ was madly in love with ‘her’. He had been willing to make every sacrifice for her, do anything, go anywhere. His love was so great.
As I closed the book with a contented sigh, I realised I had just read the story of the gospel. God loves us so much and would make any sacrifice for us, as witnessed on the cross. He never forces His affections on us. He just waits, everything He does is for our good as He wants the best for us all through our lives.
I realised that every book of romance is the story of God’s love for us. God is love as the Bible tells us. All the love in the world stems from Him. He has given us a world to enjoy because He loves us. He has given us the ability to love, be loved and form relationships. We love because He first loved us. He loves us through and through.
In the book I was reading ‘she’ slowly comes to realise that he loves her and she comes to love him too. So they fall in love together and ‘live happily ever after.’ And just like the love story in the book, we come to love Him and we ‘live happily ever after’ in His promised land for ever. In the words of James G. Small written in 1866
I’ve found a friend, oh such a friend. He loved me ‘ere i knew Him,
He drew me with the chords of love and thus He bound me to Him.