Currently, I am reading "The Reason for God," by Tim Keller. The book is simply amazing for anyone questioning or doubting about the existence of God. BUT today as I was reading I came across a quote from the famous Danish philopher Soren Kierkegaard. In his book, The Sickness Unto Death, he writes this:
No human relationship can bear [this] burden of godhood....If your partner is you "All" then any shortcoming in him becomes a major threat to you....What is it that we want when we elevate the love partner to this position? We want to be rid of...our feeling of nothingness...to know our existence has not been in vain. We want redemption-nothing less. Needless to say, humans cannot give this.
I've found this to be true. As humans, we are all sinful, no matter which ways we sometimes try to justify ourselves. Because all humans are sinful, each one will end up not meeting a "100% Satisfaction Guarantee." Just like in an earlier post, We must not let our "tarps" or "roofs" be anything but God, or we will ultimately come to a point where those "tarps" will just rip right in our hands. Our "roof" must always be God, and never in sins and definitely not ever in the people we love most.
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