Love, Love, Love

I've been so obsessed with love lately.   I'm not talking about love for your mate, family, or close friends.   That's a given.  Sometimes that love is easy and sometimes it's hard, but it's still a love that comes to us naturally through our own little world.  I'm talking about a love that only comes through the Holy Spirit.  I'm talking about compassion for those we've never met.  I'm talking about praying for a complete stranger and breaking down in tears because you're so overcome with emotions.  I'm talking about having a heart for the poor and lost halfway around the world in a place you'll probably never visit.

I don't want to waste your time talking about what I see in others, besides that would be judging.  Instead, I'll ask you to seek God and ask Him to create in you a pure and loving heart.  Ask Jesus daily to show you how to love and have compassion like He does.  You'll know then what I'm talking about because you'll feel it in your heart.  When I notice myself having negative feelings towards someone for being, looking, thinking, or behaving differently, I say love, love, love.  That's my way of calling on the Holy Spirit to correct me.  I hope you'll find a way as well through having the desire to love.

I'll leave you with the words of my new favorite song.  It's The Proof of Your Love by for King & Country (http://www.forkingandcountry.com/).  You've probably heard it on the radio, but have you really listened to the words?  Every time I hear the song, I stop and ponder on the words.  I think of God's love for us and  ask myself if I really am proof of the love, life, and sacrifice of Jesus.

THE PROOF OF YOUR LOVE

If I sing but don't have love
I waste my breathe with every song
I bring, an empty voice
A hollow noise

If I speak with a silver tongue
Convince a crowd but don't have love
I leave a bitter taste
With every word I say

Chorus
So let my life be the proof
The proof of Your love
Let my love look like You
And what You're made of
How you lived, how You died
Love is sacrifice
So let my life be the proof
The proof of Your love

If I give to a needy soul
But don't have love then who is poor
It seems all the poverty
Is found in me

Chorus

Ooh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
When it's all said and done
Ooh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
When we sing our final song

Only love remains
Only love remains

Chorus

(Music & Lyrics: Joel Smallbone / Luke Smallbone / Mia Fieldes / Jonathan Lee / Fred Williams / Ben Glover)

Blessings and much love!  Karen