Remember falling in love and writing the name of the one you were infatuated with all over the back of your exercise book? Ahaa! Such Love. Never mind the break-up, and trying to remove the now embarrassing graffiti without destroying the exercise book with its important notes for the next test! Love for Jesus will have no breakups on His part anyway. Let the infatuation go on forever, and ever. Write of your love for Jesus on your heart, your family, your everything.
A Christian is similar to a betrothed maiden. As a betrothed maiden continually thinks about her betrothed, so does the Christian continually think about Christ. Even if the betrothed is far away beyond ten hills, it is all the same, the maiden behaves as though he is constantly there; by her and with her. She thinks about him, sings to him, talks about him, dreams about him and prepares gifts for him. In the same way a Christian behaves toward Christ. As the betrothed maiden knows that she first must leave and distance herself from the home where she was born in order to meet and totally unite with her betrothed, so the Christian knows that even he cannot totally unite with Christ until death separates him from the body, i.e., from the material home in which his soul, resided and grew from birth. From the Prologue of Ohrid
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