Love Isn’t Blind

I am, have always been, and will always be (God willing) a romantic. Ever since I was little, I’ve loved the idea of falling in love with someone and having someone love me. Now, as a romantic, the whole theme of love has always struck my curiosity. So, anyway, I was scrolling through Netflix and I found a show called “Love is Blind”. The whole concept of the show is to see if men and women can fall in love without ever having seen each other. There’s more complicated twists and turns on the show, but the whole idea is discovering, “is love blind?” The answer, even though I don’t know how the show ends, is no. Love is not blind.

Sure, when you’re falling in love, you can fall in love with people who are different from you. Maybe they are different from what you expected, or taller, or shorter, or quirky, or weird. That, however, does not mean that love is blind. 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 says ” Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away” Never does it ever say, “I will turn a blind eye and just love you blindly”. On the contrary, it says “I’m going to see all of you, and I am going to choose to love all of you. Willingly. Freely. Fully. Fruitfully. Unconditionally.” Never blindly.

Jesus didn’t go into His sacrifice blindly. He saw everything, every sin, every suffering. He knew what He had to endure. Jesus suffered from the knowledge of what He knew, and He chose to love. Willingly. Freely. Fully. Fruitfully. When you go into love blindly, you can then, at some point, say “this was not what I expected, this is not what I wanted”. However, if you see everything, if you fully share yourself with the person, all your flaws, all your mistakes, all your talents, all your hopes, only then can they make a decision to love you.

Love isn’t blind, and I am glad it’s not. I’m glad because it tells me that love is courageous. When I am at that altar, I want my future husband to know that I love him, all of him, that I see him. Although we had been praying for each other blindly, I am glad when we love we get to see it fully marveling at what God is able to do.

Next time you see a crucifix, look at the face of Jesus. Look at the face that suffered and cried. Look at His sacrifice. Marvel at His beauty. Realize His love was not blind. He knew you. He saw you. He chose to suffer for you. At the end of the day, that’s why knowing you are loved by God is such a wonderful thing. It’s a relief to say, He knows all, He sees all, and He still continues to choose me.

If someone, like Jesus, sees your flaws and decides to love you anyways, know their love isn’t blind. It’s unconditional. There’s a difference.