This Is The Love

For me there is no greater, more amazing discovery than the realization how big God's love is. It's a discovery that lasts a lifetime. Just when you think you've grasped it, you find out there was so much more you didn't even realize. This is a song about that love.

An encounter with this love leaves you breathless. You are so stunned you can't believe such a love could be real and, even more, directed at you. There is no basis for comparison. It's so powerful, it demands a response. You will never be the same.

This is the love – the love beyond compare,
The love given to share. This is the love.
This is the love – the love that calls to me,
That calls me to believe. This is the love.

This is the love – the love that knows my name,
I’ll never be the same. This is the love.
This is the love – the love that’s everything,
The only love I need. This is the love.

Just encountering such amazing love is life transforming. All of a sudden you find a reason to hope. You find your burdens lifted, at least a little bit, depending how much you grasp it. And you want to do anything you can to repay such generosity. You just feel renewed from the inside.

And how my wounded heart is healed
By this love that sets me free.
And how my life is lived for Him to share this love.
And now my brokenness is cured
By all this love He has for me.
His love has set me free. This is the love.

But the love of God is not just a love of acceptance and adoration for us, despite our undeservedness. It goes beyond that to acts of a magnitude beyond comprehension. The love of God is love in action. A love that longs for us, seeks, us. A love that was willing to do whatever it takes -- including die and go to hell for us. Where else in the world does such a love exist?

This is the love – that gave itself for me,
That died to set me free. This is the love.
This is the love – that rose to live again,
That washed away my sin. This is the love.

And how my wounded heart is healed
By this love that sets me free.
And how my life is lived for Him to share this love.
And now my brokenness is cured
By all this love He has for me.
His love has set me free. This is the love.

Once we discover its vastness, we long to know more of it. We long to know Him better. No other love can satisfy our inner longing for completeness for wholeness only comes in relationship with Him. Indeed, our life's purpose, our heart's desire is met in Him, and we long to be able to love with the same love He's given us.

And I’ll never know another love like this love.
And I’ll never need to look for love again.
Now I’ve found my heart’s desire, and my soul’s been set afire.
I want to learn to love with the love that I’ve been given.

And how my wounded heart is healed
By this love that sets me free.
And how my life is lived for Him to share this love.
And now my brokenness is cured
By all this love He has for me.
His love has set me free. This is the love.

If you don't know a love like this, you just have to open your heart. It's already yours. You can't do anything to earn it or deserve it. You can't do anything to change it or to lose it. It will be yours for ever just has it has always been yours since before you were born. How can we help but worship a God of such love? How can we help but long to have a relationship with Him? Amazingly, He desires the relationship with us more than we could ever desire a relationship with Him. He seeks us daily, and all we have to do is ask and He'll walk beside us every second of every day. If you don't have that relationship what's stopping you?