During staff prayer today a song came over the speaker - one I have known a long time - that says, "I love You more than life." As I sang along, I thought about those words...and I asked the Lord, "Do I?" As I considered my question, more of them arose:
Do I even know how to love You more than life? Do I yet know what that really means? Do I know even now what it takes to love like that?
I felt like He simply and gently replied, "No...But I do."
As tears made their way slowly down my face, I realized the truth of His Word:
"There is no greater love than this - that a man would lay his life down for his friend."
I have never been faced with that, so as much as I would like to believe I would, I won't know until it happens. My heart's cry now is to allow His saturation of that kind of love so I can truly give it out.
What better calling is there?
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I too have pondered the whole aspect of loving God more than life. How do you do that? I know what it is to love with all of my heart, but how do you know if you have achieved loving Him more than life if you've never been faced with making the choice of life or love? I look at the girl from Columbine HS that was asked by her killers if she would deny Christ in order for them to spare her life, to which she said no and was killed. I've never faced that situation but feel confident in saying that I would never deny Him even if it meant my life. Christ laid down His life for all of us so wouldn't we owe Him the same?
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