Wrapping up The Foch Love Series today and I thought it was important that we ended with the beginning that should be at the forefront of our minds as regards love; what is the end goal of romantic love?

Love is so warm and pleasurable by design. I often tell my friends that love and marriage could’ve only been a God idea because of the level of pleasure and satisfaction it brings our hearts. The pleasure and satisfaction often looks like what I feel each time I think on the cross and what Jesus did there for us.

I’m convinced that love is a mirror of something more divine and the bible explains that perfectly when it talks of the mystery of Christ and the church.

Gods intention for marriage was creating an earthly semblance of the union He shared with us. For me, this remains my greatest privilege of experiencing marriage on this side of eternity; that I get to mirror God and His church.

So while we revel in the beauty that is romantic love, remember that there is an end goal;

1. To mirror Jesus and His church. At the end of romantic love that matures to marriage. God desires to see Himself and His church in you and your partner. He wants to see you and your partner replicate the covenant relationship we see in Him and us. It is such a high call but one we have been equipped to fulfil.

2. Conformation to the image of Jesus. Marriage sharpens us in very unique, vulnerable ways. God desires that we be further cleaned, pruned and washed in and through marriage. You should come out the other end (when we stand before Jesus) looking more like Him; in word, in thought and in action.

3. Pleasure, companionship, satisfaction and procreation. Nothing compares to the joy of having your own person who will always have your back. There’s a reason that our reunion with Abba is called “the wedding supper of the lamb”. It’s the physical reunion of a bridegroom with His bride. Oh! What joy!

Don’t get carried away with the superficial joys and pleasures of romantic love, plug into the spiritual implications with more satisfying divine benefits.

May our desire and joy for romantic love never be limited to the pleasures of our flesh alone. May we seek even more the pleasures of divinity mirrored through romantic love.

Happy Valentines Day to you 🌹