If only we could know the true Love of our God. How it would change us. Not to know in our heads or on paper or in Sunday School, but to deeply, richly, truly, know, feel, experience, believe, be saturated in.
My Facebook post today was the lyrics to this song....
Your Love never fails
It never gives up
It never runs out on me
Your love remains
And on and on and on and on it goes
It overwhelms
and Satisfies my Soul
Your love
Remains.....
I remember how in high school or college, when I would feel lonely and unloved, how tied that feeling was to my sense of value. I desired a love to affirm that I had value. A lover would somehow prove I was worth being loved.
Oh to know the Love that Loves when we are unlovable and ugly-hearted. When we scorn His love, yet His love is deeper still.
I remember how when there was a boy who made my heart flutter, I would write his name down on paper. Write it in different ways... write it next to mine... perhaps write his last name behind my first name.
Oh to know the One who has given us His beautiful name. Who has called us as His own, written His name upon our hearts. Oh to yearn for His love, to experience His love. To have a name that says, "Mine. You. Are. Mine." written indelibly across our hearts. His free gift to us. An expression of His being that is love. Love. Love. Love. Love. Love.
That never fails.
That never gives up.
That never runs out.
That goes on and on and on and on and on and on until it overwhelms and satisfies our deepest need.
There is no human love that can complete us. No human love that meets the God-need we have in our hearts. That lonely longing we have, intrinsic to creation, is our ache for Him. His ache for us.
The love of a boyfriend, fiancee, husband, parent, child, friend.... it can scratch the surface. It can be beautiful. But it cannot satisfy our deepest created need for Love.
