I cannot give you what you seek

Aragorn: Why have you come?

Eowyn: Do you not know?

Aragorn: It is but a shadow and a thought that you love. I cannot give you what you seek.

The line above is from Lord of the rings the film. 

Eowyn fell in love with Aragorn but Aragorn was already in love with someone else. Legolas once said of Aragorn, "For all those who come to know him [Aragorn] come to love him after their own fashion, even the cold maiden of the Rohirrim." 

Eowyn loved him but Aragorn knew that, "in me she loves only a shadow and a thought: a hope of glory and great deeds, and lands far from the fields of Rohan." 

Nevertheless, Aragorn could not return her love and it is so in many cases in this world. There are those we love and admire and only wish for them to love us back, but it is not their destiny to love us as we desire.  They cannot give us what we seek, but God can. 

Eowyn's case did not end in tragedy for she found another love, one which was better for her.

The Christian must always put his whole life in God's hands. Unrequited love is a bitter thing but true faith looks to the giver of all things and admires his ways.  They understand that God can give them what they truly seek and even if they don't understand it now, that they will understand it then when they see Him face to face. 

Everlasting love begins here. If you have given your life to Jesus, you have an eternal love story that will never end.

If marriage is not your portion and you sigh at your singleness until the day of your death, know this that at the point of your death, your sorrows will cease. And you will see the golden chain that binds you to Christ. 

K.Oni