Fascination is an incredible gift from God. We are meant to be drawn to each other. The beauty of fascination is is that it goes deeper than attraction because it recognizes the infinite nature of the other. It is our infinite soul seeking out that of the other. However it is also a very dangerous thing, for Satan twists everything that is from God, and the greater the gift the greater the perversion.
Fascination inverted is obsession that leads to possession. This is seen in young couples today who spend hours and hours online, on the phone, every moment together. Spending that much time turns fascination into obsession because everything is blotted out except the object of fascination. We were created to be in the world; not of the world, but in it. God puts love between two people so that they can then bring it to the world. If they do not do this, if they do not allow their love to bring them to something greater outside of themselves, then their fledgling love will slide to obsession and soon thereafter possession.
In a true love, each seeks to bring that love for the other into the world to fulfill whatever God has called him or her to do. God will only give you another person to love as yourself if you can then give that person back to Him while still giving yourself entirely to Him through the other. True love will not spend every second with the other, because it sees that the education, job, and other relationships are in fact necessary to serve it's subject. True love sees its subject as the reason to do its studies or be committed to and succeed at its job. It's counterfeit sees the subject as the reason to ignore its studies and job. True love develops and expands its heart so that it spills over to fertilize other budding friendships. It's counterfeit withdraws nutrients from other friendships and shrivels them.
We must pray to God that He will protect and guard the gifts that He grants us, most especially the gift of fascination, that it may cause us to love beyond ourselves and catch us up into His Trinitarian Love.
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