Love That…

Love That…

I wanna know this love that burns my heart…
Love that knows me…Love that called me…Love that heals me
Love that protects me…
Love that knows my name
Love that set me apart…Love that makes me free
Ohhh..A love that knows me…Love that wrecks me…Love that moves me
Ohhhh…Love that holds me
And I would give the very breath I breathe
Just to have You next to …me.
Stay here, close to me…
~Open, Josh Baldwin / Kim Walker-Smith

If people would ever be honest with themselves, and honest with God, these handful of words are what most of us want in life. We want love – pure, clean, unconditional love. To have God breathe on us, breathe through us and be our very breath is what most of us want. The remaining few want it as well, they just don’t understand, or know how to understand, this is what they seek.

When God used Paul to describe perfect Love, He couldn’t have used a better example. From murderous Pharisee to one of the most loving voices in history. May be the greatest testimony of a new creature living a life reborn in the Spirit.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away.
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known.
And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. ~1 Corinthians 13:1-13 NKJB

Either the Gospel is the divine Word of God teaching us how to live and how to be a reflection of Him, or it’s nothing more than a historical account of events.