Love?

Have you ever lost someone you loved, whether to death or simply separation? If so you know how at least for a time being, all seems meaningless without that person.
Our love for Christ needs to be the kind of love where everything is meaningless without him. Our hearts are all to empty and we seek filling through everything the world offers. Solomon knows all about that and said that all is vanity. “like grasping at the wind.” How silly is it to not listen to the wisest man in the world?
If we truly want to fill our thirst we need to exhibit a love for God even stronger than the love for that someone. All of life needs to be meaningless unless pursued for Him.
What does that love look like? It looks like a life lived in the Spirit, bearing the fruits as explained in Galatians 5:22 “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. 24 And those who are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. 25 If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”