Young Love Can Work!

Young love – the emotional kind, the butterflies-in-your-stomach kind, the kind everyone says can ‘t last: I have some comments about that, and they’re good. Starting with: young love can and does work!
I’ve just finished watching a tv show that essentially threw a big wet blanket on this kind of “infatuation” love. As many so-called experts say, it’s great for the beginning of a relationship but it invariably gives way, with terrible things to follow including divorce. I think that’s nonsense!

Young Love is Necessary

Young love is entirely necessary for a mature and lasting relationship and marriage. It is the

Young love is fun!
first stage of love that grows into maturity. I view things primarily Biblically, and in this case I have to defer to 1 Corinthians 13, the famous “love chapter”. In this chapter, the first 10 verses describe what love is in it’s maturity: it’s patient, kind, not jealous, doesn’t brag, it’s not arrogant, and many other beautiful descriptions of what love is. Then in verse 11, it contrasts this by talking about how one acts as a child. Mind you, the subject is still love, but it uses a human “for instance”:
When I was a child, I used to speak as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when i became a man, I did away with childish things
So this example can apply to maturity in the Christian life, but also to the immediate context of Love. I believe that the long lasting, mature love that we aspire to begins as an infant, grows into a child, and then matures into the love that sustains a family and marriage until the “death do us part” that is commonly referred to in wedding vows.
In this passage it’s easy to see the growth and progress of what young love can develop into – just look at the verses that preceded it. It grows into a maturity that is patient, kind, not jealous, not arrogant, doesn’t brag, doesn’t act unbecomingly, and so many other positive attributes.