Falling in Love Over the Internet
StoryAnalogy★★★★SADLY, these days there are many young ladies who are being coerced indirectly into bad situations because they meet somebody over the Internet. Even thirteen-year-old girls can be lured to a location to meet somebody they don’t know because they “fell in love” over the Internet. Their initial relationship with this stranger is only by reading. Both parties sit at the computer and read each other’s words, but after awhile, the words take on life because behind the word is a real, living person. Those words for a young girl grow into emotions and then turn into actions as she figures out how to sneak out to meet him. Those words take on life because the girl spent time abiding in the presence of someone she couldn’t now see.
You can’t see the Living God. He’s a spirit, but He’s written to you and wants to have an eternal love affair with you. If you hang out there with His words, next thing you know you’ll be packing your bags to meet Him. You’ll have fallen in love with Him and have become transformed by abiding in His presence.
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The point
Compares falling in love with a stranger through reading their words online to falling in love with God by abiding in His Word.
