Comments on: Lost Love https://www.cordeo.org.uk/lost-love/ Biblical Training Programme Tue, 08 Mar 2011 08:02:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Tony Thomas https://www.cordeo.org.uk/lost-love/comment-page-1/#comment-2475 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 08:02:46 +0000 http://www.cordeo.org.uk/?p=463#comment-2475 How interesting that a part of my daily reading was psalm 51, having just set that aside I read your article in which you mention it.
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The passage that struck me was vv 16-17, wherein David realises that it is not sacrifices that please God but a sincere and contrite heart. It is easy to translate that into a current relationship; giving flowers and chocolates to ones wife whilst giving ones heart to a mistress. Whilst that analogy is an obvious and blunt tool, I wonder how many marriages (or the love within them) turn cold, not because of infidelity with another person, but with the distractions of everyday life.

Your suggestion of the causes on ‘lawlessness’ really resonates with me. I have always struggled when told that such things are the modern day ‘gods and idols’ and whilst I don’t dismiss that, I find your explanation more appropriate. Seeing them as the distractions that turn our attention away from our loving Lord and saviour and thus being instrumental in causing our love to wain is something that I can relate to.

There is an expression today of being ‘cash rich and time poor’ but I suspect that many are ‘distraction rich and love poor’. For many of us I imagine that evening TV viewing has become a routine, and we will even ‘channel hop’ to find something worth watching (or at least less bad to watch). But will claim that they ‘just can’t find the time’ to read the bible, to attend bible study etc. and then wonder why our relationship with God appears to be growing lukewarm.

Once again Ron, thanks for the article.

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