The Universal Need For Unconditional Love And Acceptance.
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How come every human being desires to be love unconditionally? Maybe because there is a recognition that this is so unachievable in the normal course of most relationships? Or is it that we recognise that to receive love just for being us is so alien to our experience?
Or that the deep emotional holes in the lives of most men and women cry out to be filled? Or that being loved unconditionally is the deepest need of the human heart?
However we reflect on it, we acknowledge that to receive love unconditionally is very rare for the vast majority of people in the world that we live in today. Some will not even be aware they need it. And yet most will consciously or unconsciously yearn for it.
And acceptance? Most of us desire to be accepted just as we are, "warts and all". And yet, in the world that we live in, we are placed, categorized and valued by who we are, what we have done and what we look like. Acceptance is conditional - for the most part - on whether we 'fit the bill' or not. And yet 'the bill' is based on other peoples' perceptions of what is a good, correct, fitting, acceptable, etc. level to have arrived at.
Most times we can never achieve or attain this, but we can spend a lifetime, if we are not careful, struggling, performing, striving, chasing - but never quite getting there - our goal or endless quest to be accepted or approved. To meet the pre-conditions which other peoples' worldviews or expectations have laid out for us.
The challenge can never be won. The game goes on and on. Like endlessly chasing our own tail. Coming close, but never quite getting there. Like a football game where we keep thinking we may be able to score the final goal, only to find extra play has been declared - and the goalposts have been moved anyway.
So why do we do it? And what's the solution? As mentioned earlier, it really is a fundamental part of the human condition to desire to be loved and accepted. And, what is more, all of us desire to be UNCONDITIONALLY loved and accepted, without having to do anything to achieve it or attain it.
Just to be given this. Our souls cry out for it. Pure, unadulterated, freely given unconditional love and acceptance - to satisfy fully the deepest needs, longings and yearnings of our human heart.
Where can we get this? Is there an answer to the deepest need of the human heart? Can another meet our heart's deep cry? Can it happen? Or do we give up and acknowledge that this is unattainable - and cease our searchings?
Claims have been made that it is only in the person of Jesus Christ - who said he was both man and God - that the unconditional love and acceptance we all yearn for, can really be found. Counter arguments would deny this vociferiously - declaring that was rubbish, lies, lunacy, deception, counterfeit, etc.....
What cannot be ignored, however, is that this particular question has been the source of major discussion and argument over the last two thousand years. And where do WE stand? How does it affect us? Can OUR needs be met thus? Until we seek for the answer to this question, we will never get to the truth.
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