God wants what is best for us, and has a great plan prepared for our lives when it comes to friends, dating and especially marriage and love. God placed a longing in us for companionship. This is further evidenced throughout scripture in the lives of Abraham and Sarah, Mary and Joseph, and many others. I will make a helper suitable for him.’” From the beginning, God designed the concept of companionship and created a picture of partnership in the first relationship between Adam and Eve. The concept of soul mates first appears in Genesis 2:19 which states, “The Lord God said, ‘It is not good for man to be alone. We all want to have our fairytale ending where we live “happily ever after.” We want to find someone that we can spend the rest of our lives with and feel forever, true love with. The Bible talks about both, and is clear about what romantic true love means.

There are different types of love: the love we have for our friends and family, and then romantic love we have for a significant other. Everything God does is influenced by His love. In fact, the Bible says that “love is of God” and “God is love” (1 John 4:7–8) in other words, love is a fundamental characteristic of who God is. Love is one of the most important virtues of living a Christian life, so we should really be turning to God to understand what it means. The Bible is full of passages about love, and it’s one of the central themes of scripture.

People spend years searching for the meaning of true love, but very few turn to the Bible to learn what it has to say about it.

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