The Greatest Love Song ever Sung

I can't help but be moved every time my daughter Bethany sits at the piano and plays the David Crowder song "He Loves Us". It's not a song that tries to move me to the right place thru worship, listing all of Gods wonderful attributes or the power in his name. All of which i wouldn't trade for the world, but, when i sing "He loves Us" ... It's a love song. Not mine or yours but His, and how can one resist so great a love song, so great a salvation. "...If grace were an ocean...then we are all sinking..."


I speak with women and men who would give anything (so they think) to feel that sort of love. That full abandon, no holds barred, all consuming, all forgiving, all enduring, all in, all giving sort of love.

My daughter Katelyn is into this slam poetry.. I have heard her favorite many, many, many times ringing throughout the house, either on one of her electronic devices or just by her quoting it:

" ... I want the kind of love that is the 'me thinkin bout you, thinkin bout me, thinkin bout you, thinkin bout me kind of love..."

The psalmist said: "How vast are your thoughts toward me oh Lord, if i could count them they would number more than the sand of the sea." Scripture tells us... " ...For He numbers every hair on our heads...He sees the insignificant sparrow when he falls, ... He clothes the fields with beautiful lilis...How much more does He care about man"

I enter today with a love song on my heart. A song ringing from a hill called Golgotha. A place of death. The kind of Death that brings life. The kind of life that is worth dying for, eternal life, redeeming life, saving life, loving life, unselfish life, giving life, fruitful life.

People let each other down. People fail. People can be selfish... James chapter one says "Wherefore do fights and quarrels break out from among you? You fight and you quarrel because you have not what you desire and you fight for what you want" ...Selfish people that we are....

Jesus completely, unselfishly desired that we might have LIFE and have it more abundantly. not more things, not more flesh, not more earthly desires...but LIFE...

"...He loves us, oh, how he loves us, oh, how he loves us!! If grace were an ocean, we are all sinking. Heaven meets Earth like an unforeseen kiss and my heart turns violently inside my chest and i don't have time to maintain these regrets when i think about the way....He loves us, oh, how he loves us, oh, how he loves us, oh, how he loves us..."

He held nothing back, nothing of himself, not his comfort, not his life. He didn't love his own life unto death..He loved us ..unto death.

I started my day today with this in mind, this song in my heart, though my asthma does not permit me belt it out today. My heart sings. Won't you join me. Accept his love song today.