Never new love has a dark side! 1 Corinthians 13:4 (ESV) Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.

When bitterness sets in where love once use to be, it becomes the dark side of love. Resenting someone for doing what you had the ability to do, but didn’t. Envy, jealousy and hate which really is another form for resentment and bitterness. We are born with love in our hearts and bitterness, hate and resentment is an attack of that love. Like an infectious disease no matter how loving you are the dark side of love tries to enter in our hearts to destroy love. Love is strong and it stands firm according to 1 Corinthians 13:4. But to hate, it’s easy, because we throw that weight out there on someone who has to be the one carrying it and it’s so heavy a weight to carry. But love, it lifts us up like wings, that we can fly.

It hard to believe that two people who once love each other for years, through divorce turn out to be each other’s worst enemy. A parents and their child or children, siblings, friends and neighbours. We never start off with hating one other, it always began with love. We were created by God with love. John 3:16 “ God so loved the world…” The dark side of love has taken over our world and if we don’t recognize it, then we can’t change it. It is up to us to shine the light through love. God wants to bring us back to love as we were in the beginning.

We all believe that it’s just us humans God has been working on with love. Believe it or not our merciful and forgiving God is determined to conquer the bitterness in the devil which this dark side of love resonated and infected us. If he didn’t see us as a threat, to encourage Adam and Eve to disobey God leaving us to live in this struggle to this day. His time is at hand, God is going to turning things around with greater love and the devil will be conquered. Realize that the devil himself is the dark side of love.