Love is Not All You Need

The year was 1966. Two bands, The Beatles and The Beach Boys, were household names. They were writing and singing songs that would define a generation. 

God Only Knows What I’d Be Without You by Brian Wilson is known as one of the best love songs ever written. It is at once simple, passionate, and elegant.

If you should ever leave me 

Though life would still go on believe me 

The world could show nothing to me 

So what good would living do me 

God only knows what I'd be without you

Here, There and Everywhere by Paul McCartney and John Lennon is another of the great love songs of the last century. 

To lead a better life 

I need my love to be here 

Here, making each day of the year 

Changing my life with a wave of her hand

The songs are almost fifty years old. But the human belief remains the same: when we find our true soul mate, most everything wrong in our life will be healed. That we are nobody until somebody loves us. That our life can’t be heading toward completeness without the love of another. 

All people need to know the following truths: Humans are made for a far deeper and more profound love than any human relationship can offer. No human being is qualified for the role of savior and when we place this role on a spouse or a child or a friend they will be crushed by the weight of our expectations and we will be disappointed. 

The point isn’t to love people less. The point is to love God more. And by loving God more and experiencing God’s love more—we can be more loving to people. We can love others not through our imperfection but through God’s perfection.

Here’s the deal. Jesus is the bridegroom. Our brother. Our friend. He is the One who saves by grace. The gods of moralistic religions favor the successful and the overachievers. But Jesus came to the world to accomplish salvation for the weak, the unloved, the lonely, the hurting, the broken, and the blessed. He has the only set of arms that will fill our heart’s desire. 

Colossians 3:1-4 

Since you have been raised to new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in the place of honor at God’s right hand. Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth. And you will share in all his glory. 

The best is yet to come… 

Craig