One of my favorite things to do when I am home is to get in my car and just drive. I like driving a whole lot and I particularly love it when I’m listening to worship music. Sometimes if I’m having a bad day or I’m just feeling down car rides are a great place to just sing to God and vent to God about what has been on my heart. This past evening when I was driving, the Tenth Avenue North song Love is Here came on. I’ve heard this song literally hundreds of times and I almost skipped over it, but I decided to listen to it anyway. This time the song seemed to take on a whole new meaning to me. If you’ve heard the song you know the chorus goes something like this:
Love is here.
Love is now.
Love is pouring from
His hands, from his brow.
Love is near, it satisfies.
Streams of mercy flowing from his side.
Cuz love is here.
We act like we are all on some sort of mission to find love. We desire it to the core of our being. We want to be loved, we want to feel love, and we spend SOOO much of our time trying to find it in all the wrong places. I’m guilty of this too. I find myself thinking about my future husband and how if I just had him now my life would somehow be complete and I could stop searching for love. Except…none of that is true. Love is imperfect, at least the kind of human love that we have. There is no man on this earth who can fill the deep desire I have to be loved. Don’t get me wrong, finding love and relationships are all great things, in fact we are called to love one another, but what I really mean is that TRUE and REAL love will never be found in another human being.
As much as I want a husband and someone to love me, LOVE IS HERE. Just as the Tenth Avenue North song says, “Love is here. Love is now.” As cliché as it can sound we don’t have to look to the future when we think about love. God, love himself, is right here and is constantly extending his love to us every minute of everyday. We don’t have to look far at all to see the love of God. Everywhere we look we can see God romancing and pursuing us. I see God’s love in sunsets, the sparkles on the snow, the stars, the sun, the moon, and flowers.
And just a side thought… us girls would feel so loved and special if a boy were to send us flowers, but wait our God CREATED flowers, talk about feeling loved and special now! All of creation is God pursuing us and showing us that he loves us. Think about that.
This isn’t some kind of shallow love either. This isn’t the kind of love that has the potential to end. This isn’t the kind of love you “fall out of” either, the love of Christ is unlike any other kind of love we have ever known, have ever felt, or will ever experience. We will never be able to fully understand this kind of love, especially because of how jaded and bitter bad relationships have made us feel towards love. Even though “earthly” love doesn’t always last, God’s love is everlasting, unconditional, perfect, and satisfying. His love is the only love that can ever fill/satisfy that void we keep trying to fill with the wrong kind of love. If only we could grasp the magnitude of His love we could stop running the exhausting chase after love in all the wrong places.
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