Looking for Love in All the Wrong
Places?
By Daxx Bondoc
Most of us are tired with our search for
love. Our search has become a vicious cycle
of disappointment and of falling out of one
relationship to the next. Still we seek and
believe that we will find a love that will
completely satisfy us. Something inside us
tells us that the unconditional love we are
looking for exist, even if the evidence seem
to says otherwise.
“Jesus came to the Samaritan Town of
Sychar … Jacob’s well was there and
Jesus, tired from the journey, sat down by
the well. It was about the sixth hour. A
Samaritan woman came to draw water.
Jesus said to her, “Give me to drink… How
can you ask me for a drink? for Jews have
nothing to do with Samaritans. ”” - Jn 4:
1-30
This Gospel tells of a Samaritan woman
who goes everyday to get water from the
well. On this particular day, she finds Jesus
at the well before her.
Many of us feel like the Samaritan. We
cannot seem to find the love that will
satisfy us. Everyday the woman goes to the
well to quench her thirst, but then gets
thirsty again. It is the same with us, we
jump from one relationship to the next in
search of love. Yet it leaves us still thirsty
for love at the end of the day. Many of us
are weary from hopping from one person
to the next. And there are others who have
totally given up hope of finding this kind of
satisfying love.
In our search for love in all the wrong
places, Jesus has been waiting for us. Jesus,
who is Love made flesh, knows that He
alone can give the satisfying love we are
thirsting for.
Unfortunately many of us doubt that Jesus
can satisfy us or doubt that He will love us
because of our unworthiness. Like the
Samaritan woman we voice our doubts to
Jesus, “How can you ask me for a drink?
…for Jews have nothing to do with
Samaritans.” Samaritans were considered
unclean during those times. We share the
same unbelief the Samaritan woman was
experiencing. Is Jesus taking to me, a
sinner? Does Jesus want to have an
intimate relationship with an unclean
person?
Jesus replied to her, ‘If you but knew the
gift of God, and who it is that asks you for
a drink, you would have asked him, and he
would have given you living water. ’
Jesus wants us to experience His
unconditional love but we must first meet
Him. We must first encounter him in
prayer. And when we encounter Jesus, He
will say to us, “Give me your heart.” He
wants the heart that you have given to so
many empty things, except to Him. Jesus
can never fill our hearts with His love if it is
filled with garbage.
“He would have given you living water.”
On of the most famous line in the Christian
world is what St. Augustine said, “Our
hearts are restless until they rest in Thee, O
Lord ”
Give your heart to Jesus, and He will give
you the love you are looking for.