ARE YOU BLINDLY IN LOVE? THEN CHECK THIS
Bisi Adewale
What you called love in most cases is not real love, it is simply called infatuation which is known as blind love. So, let us examine what this blind love is and its features the life of its victims.
Infatuation is the state of being completely carried away by an attraction to someone. The dictionary calls it “being blindly in love”. What that means is that you are so carried away by this attraction that you do not know what you are doing. If you are blind to the fault of the person, you think he is perfect, other people may see faults but you are blind to them because you are being carried away by what is pulling your attention.
The person involved in a romantic infatuation usually cannot think of anything or anyone else other than the person he or she is in blindly in love with. An “infatuation is a state of being emotional high” but it never lasts long because it is not true love. Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English defines it as unreasonably strong feelings of love that you only have for a short time especially for someone you do not know very well.
If you possess any of these mentioned below, then you should have a brain rest and wake up from your sleep into the reality of life.
What Infatuation does…
- It emanates from the flesh
- It starts fast, they call it “love at first sight”
- Infatuation is blind
- Common sense is absent here, hence, anything can happen
- It wants sex now!
- It disorganizes as you do things out of your sense.
- It Idolises the so-called lover, hence he/she is considered first before God or His word.
- It does not last long and it produces bitterness
- If you are infatuated, you lose control of yourself
- It is based on outward attraction
- It involves eye service (pretence)
- It is selfish
- It disobeys parents and the church authority
- It glorifies unrighteousness
- It glorifies and exalts gains
- It is from an immature mind
- It desires to take
- It annoys God
- It is proud
- It is full of envy
- It is a bad foundation for marriage. Do not build on it.
- It is only emotion without compassion.
With these features in mind, examine whether you are truly in love or infatuated. Test whether that person is in love with you or infatuated.
One thing I want you to bear in mind is that any relationship that is not based on God is not based on love.
© Bisi Adewale 2020
