Sunday, April 8, 2012

Reflections on Easter

It's Easter.  I love this time of year.  The deeper I grow in my walk with the Father, the more I love this holiday.  It truly amazes me.  He gave up everything to come to earth and save us.  It gives me shivers and brings tears to my eyes each time I think about it.  I simply cannot understand that love.  Why would he chose to love me when I have done nothing to deserve or earn it?  But that is the true beauty of his love.  There is nothing, and I do mean NOTHING, I can do to make him love me less or make him love me more.  He is constant, merciful, and loving when I can offer nothing in return.  How could one even consider turning their back on a love like that?
I am surely not the strongest of the saints.  I fail all the time.  My sins outweigh my virtues.  Yet, each day he chooses to use me and grow me.  It simply amazes me.  My heart feels as though it could burst for the love that is inside it.  I am his and he is mine.  I will follow him gladly wherever he leads me and where every he calls me.
 And, Father, tomorrow, when these words don't ring as strongly in my heart because once again my own selfishness has come between us, please, remind me again.   Remind me of this love so strong that I would give up anything.  And when temptations come and I stumble again, remind me that you have paid for those sins and that I belong to you.  And when fear strikes me heart remind me that I am yours and nothing can separate me from your love. 
I am yours!  I am your child!  Your daughter!  The one you gave up everything for!  The one you offer everything to!  The one you will never leave!  The one you will forever love!

How He Loves Us (my current favorite song)
He is jealous for me
Love's like a hurricane, I am a tree
Bending beneath the weight of His wind and mercy
When all of a sudden, I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory
and I realize just how beautiful You are and how great your affections are for me.
Oh, how He loves us so
Oh, how He loves us
How He loves us so.

Yeah, He loves us
Oh, how He loves us
Oh, how He loves us
Oh, how He loves.

So we are His portion and He is our prize,
Drawn to redemption by the grace in His eyes
If grace is an ocean we're all sinking
So heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss and my heart turns violently inside of my chest
I don't have time to maintain these regrets when I think about the way

That he loves us,
Oh, how He loves us
Oh, how He loves us
Oh, how He loves

He loves us,
Oh, how He loves us
Oh, how He loves us
Oh, how He loves