Oh wow, haven't heard this song, "Why Should He Love Me So?" in many a moon....then all of a sudden today it started traveling in my head and down to my heart.
I'll have to say it didn't put me on one of those trips where I feel like a "worm", not worthy of love of any kind from anybody for any reason. It did start me to thinking that it really is an amazing mystery how God, my Abba Father, could love me so much. That got me to remembering that classic of Dottie Rambo's...
"He left the splendor of Heaven, knowing His destiny
'twas the lonely hill of Golgatha, there to lay down His life for me...
If that isn't love, the ocean is dry, there're no stars in the sky, and the sparrow can't fly
If that isn't love, then Heaven's a myth, there's no feeling like this, it that isn't love"
It's now floating around in my head and heart that I don't have to dig and dig and dig to know why He'd love me so....He is just that...HE IS LOVE. He loves me because that's what He does...no, what He is!!!!!
These are hard days. It's tough for ministries. It's tough for churches. It's tough for parents. It's tough for men, and it's tough for women. It's tough to know who you can trust and who you can't. It's tough to weed out fact from a preponderance of fiction. In general, life is hard. Did you know the Bible promises that life will be hard? In a recent conversation with Ann about the overall decline of the church... why congregations take off and then systematically shrink and ultimately dissolve... I believe the Lord dropped a relevant truth into my heart. It's not anything I haven't said before, but it is in a different context. I'm seeing a trend in making converts without discipleship. And, in the cases where discipling does take place, I fear there is some error in the teaching which could, in very large part, be responsible for the decline of the American church. ...
Beautiful Ann! Absolutely Beautiful! Thank You for sharing!
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