Your Love.

 Your Love

A Reflection on 1 John 4:9-10, Romans 8:38-39, and Jeremiah 31:3

Your love—not a fleeting, fragile flame,

But a roaring fire that forever stays the same.

Not a love that waits for me to be good or right,

But a love that sought me in the darkest night.

This is how God showed His love among us: He sent His one and only Son into the world that we might live through Him. (1 John 4:9)

Your love—it did not begin when I first believed.

It was set upon me before I was conceived.

You loved me when I ran, when I cursed Your name,

When I played the harlot and drowned in shame.

It is higher than the heavens, deeper than the sea.

Your love will not let go of me, no matter where I flee.

It pursued me down the mountain, it followed to the pit.

And when I had no strength to run, Your love carried me, and lit

A path of mercy back to Your embrace.

“I have loved you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness.” (Jeremiah 31:3)

Your love—it never fails, it never ends.

It breaks the hardest heart, it mends.

It is patient, kind, not jealous, proud, or rude.

Your love is my daily, healing food.

Nothing can separate us from this love so true—

Not death, not life, not angels, not the powers that pursue.

Not height, not depth, not anything in all creation.

Your love is my eternal foundation.

For I am convinced that neither death nor life... nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:38-39)

So I rest in Your love—not as a wage I earned,

But as a gift for which my spirit yearned.

Your love—my song, my hope, my peace,

My beginning, my end, my sweet release.

Amen.